Murdock Translation of the NT Peshitta (1851)

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Contents:

Introduction………..…………..2

Matthew…………..…...………5
Mark…………………....….…34
Luke…………………….…….53
John………………...…..……85
Acts…………………...….…109
Romans……………………..141
1Corinthians…………..……154
2Corinthians……………..…167
Galatians……………………175
Ephesians……………..……179
Philippians………………….184
Colossians………………….187
1Thessalonians…………….190
2Thessalonians………….…193
1Timothy……………..……..195
2Timothy………………...….199
Titus…………………………202
Philemon…….…………..….204
Hebrews…………………….205
James………………..……..215
1Peter……………………….218
2Peter………………….……222
1John…………………….….225
2John………….…………….229
3John…………………….….230
Jude……………………..…..231
Apocalypse…………………232

Author….……………………247
THE NEW TESTAMENT:

TRANSLATED FROM
THE SYRIAC PESHITO VERSION.
THE NEW TESTAMENT; OR, THE BOOK OF THE HOLY GOSPEL OF OUR LORD AND OUR
GOD, JESUS THE MESSIAH.

A Literal Translation from the Syriac Peshito Version.

BY JAMES MURDOCK, D.D.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY STANFORD AND SWORDS,
NO. 187 BROADWAY.

1852.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand

Eight Hundred and Fifty-one,

BY JAMES MURDOCK, D. D.,

PREFACE.

To extend his own long cherished but scanty knowledge of the Syriac language, the writer
commenced reading the Peshito Syriac New Testament in January, 1845, and at every step he
found increasing delight. The artless simplicity, directness, and transparency of the style,-the
propriety and beauty of the conceptions of Christ and his followers, as expressed in a Shemitish
dialect very nearly identical with their vernacular tongue,-the pleasing thought that the words
were, probably, in great part, the very terms which the Saviour and his Apostles actually uttered
in their discourses and conversations,-and especially the full comprehension which the Syriac
translator seemed to have of the force and meaning of the inspired original, served to chain
attention and hold the mind spell-bound to the book. Such exquisite pleasure the writer longed
to have others share with him; but as few persons, even among the clergy, have either leisure
or facilities for acquiring the Syriac language, he soon came to the conclusion, that he could do
nothing better than first read the book carefully through, and then give a literal and exact
translation of it. Accordingly he furnished himself with several of the best editions of the book,
and the best Lexicons and Grammars, and commenced his translation early in August, 1845,
and completed it on the 16th of June, 1846. This is briefly the history of the work here presented
to the public.
The Syriac text followed in the first part of this translation, was that of the beautiful edition
printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1816, 4to., which was prepared for the
press, as far as the Acts of the Apostles, by the late Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D., Author of
"Christian Researches," "Star in the East," &c., and the remainder by the Rev. Samuel Lee,
D.D., Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, England. The latter part of the
translation was made from the second edition of the same Bible Society, London, 1826, 4to.; but
the text of Leusden and Schaaf's edition, Leyden, 1717, was everywhere consulted, and much
use was made of their Latin translation of it. The pocket edition of Gutbir, Hamburgh, 1684,
12mo., was also generally consulted. The Lexicons constantly used throughout, were the
Lexicon Syriacum Concordantiale in Nov. Testamentum of Charles Schaaf, Leyden, 1717, 4to;
the Lexicon Syriacum of Edmund Castell, revised and enlarged by J. D. Michaelis, Gottingen,
1788, 4to.; and the small Lexicon Syriacum in Nov. Testamentum of Giles Gutbir, bound up with
his Syriac New Testament. The Grammars relied upon were, the elaborate Grammaticae
Syriacae Libri iii. of Andr. Theoph. Hoffmann, Philos. et Theol. Doctor, Halle, 1827, 4to; and the
Elementarlehre der syrischen Sprache, by Prof. Fred. Uhlemann, Berlin, 1829, 8vo.

The foot margin is reserved for occasional comments and critical observations.

The principles adopted in this translation, were:

(1) To translate, as literally as possible, in consistence with idiomatic and perspicuous English

(2) To use Saxon phraseology in preference to Latin, as better according with the spirit of the
Peshito original.

(3) To adopt the obsolescent and solemn style of the English Bible, e. g. thou speakest, he
speaketh, ye speak, instead of you speak, he speaks, &c., as more seemly for this holy Book.

(4) To write the proper names of persons and places, which are mentioned in the Old
Testament, as they are written in our English Old Testament; and those which occur only in the
New Testament, as they are written in our English New Testament. This is the rule adopted by
Dr. Campbell in his translation of the Four Gospels. Yet (Meshihha) has been translated
Messiah, and not Christ; and (Shemun) has been translated Simon, and not Peter.

(5) In general, to avoid using technical theological terms, when good substitutes could be found,
in order to call away attention from the word to the thing: thus (an Apostle) is rendered Legate;
and (Saviour) is rendered Vivifier, as being more literal, for the verb (especially in the Conjug.
Aphel, properly signifies to make alive, to vivify; and its derivatives, properly signify} life, and life-
giver, or vivifier. These are the usual terms of the Syriac version, denoting that salvation which
Christ bestows on fallen men, who are represented as "dead in trespasses and sin." The terms
(liberator, deliverer) and (deliverance) are indeed sometimes used of this salvation, but less
frequently.-Yet there is one family of Syriac technicals, which have been rendered by the
English technicals for the same ideas, to the neglect of their primary meaning. They are
(properly, intransitive, to stand up, to stand firm,) which is translated, to be baptized:-; (literally,
transitive, to cause another to stand, to establish), translated, to baptize:-, (an establisher, one
who makes others to stand), translated, a baptizer:- and(a standing up), translated, baptism.

(6) To translate idiomatic phrases not fully naturalized in the English language, by equivalent
English phrases, and not to transfer them in their foreign costume. Thus, ES; (a feeder on
detraction), an epithet of Satan, is translated a calumniator: (lord of enmity) is translated an
enemy: (major-domus) is rendered, a steward: (mastership of the house) is rendered
stewardship:-; (accepting faces) is rendered, having respect of persons, or partiality:- ;
(assumers of faces) is rendered hypocrites:- ; (letting out breath), apologizing, or defending
one's self: and (holding the breath), being patient, or long suffering.- ; (living from roofs,
roaming in fields) are lunatics. So also many compounds of, a son, and of , a house or home,
are paraphrased; e. g. son of his city, rendered, his fellowcitizen:-son of my yoke, rendered, my
yoke-fellow, or colleague:-son of forty years, rendered, forty years old:-son of their trade,
rendered, one of their occupation:- son of a man, rendered, a man:-sons of men, rendered men;
&c. And house of the prisoners, translated, a prison:-house (home) of the dead, translated, a
grave, or sepulchre:-house of gatherings, translated, a garner, or store-house:-house of the
publicans, translated, a custom house:-house (home) of olives, translated, an olive yard:- house
(home) of the eyes, translated, the forehead; &c.
When the translator had finished his work, he supposed that he had produced the only
English translation of the New Testament ever made from the Peshito; but after about three
months, the London press issued a book, entitled, " A Literal Translation of the Four Gospels
from the Peshito, by J. W. Etheridge;" and announced, as in preparation, by the same author,
"The Apostolical Acts and Epistles, from the Peshito." The Gospels of Mr. Etheridge were
speedily procured; but, on comparing them with this version, the plan and aims of Mr. Etheridge
were found to be so diverse from his own, that the translator had no hesitation in going forward
with his work. Accordingly, he continued to revise and correct it; and, for the sake of improving
it, as he found opportunity, he pursued the study of the Syriac language and literature, for more
than four years. The result he now presents to the Christian public, hoping it may prove both
interesting and useful to all such as are anxious to perfect themselves in the knowledge of the
holy Scriptures of the New Testament.

JAMES MURDOCK.

NEW-HAVEN, July 23, 1851.

The Announcement of Matthew
1:1 The book of the nativity of Jesus the
Messiah, the son of David, son of Abraham.
2 23
Abraham begat Isaac: Isaac begat Jacob:
Jacob begat Judah and his brothers:
3
Judah begat Pharez and Zara of Tamar:
Pharez begat Hezron: Hezron begat Ram:
4
Ram begat Aminadab: Aminadab begat
Nahshon: Nahshon begat Salmon:
5 25
Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab: Boaz begat
Obed of Ruth: Obed begat Jesse:
6
Jesse begat David the king: David begat
Solomon of the wife of Uriah:
7
Solomon begat Rehoboam: Rehoboam begat
Abia: Abia begat Asa:
8 2
Asa begat Jehoshaphat: Jehoshaphat begat
Joram: Joram begat Uzziah:
9
Uzziah begat Jotham: Jotham begat Ahaz:
Ahaz begat Hezekiah:
10
Hezekiah begat Manasseh: Manasseh begat
Amon: Amon begat Josiah:
11
Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brothers, in
the captivity of Babylon.
12
And after the captivity of Babylon, Jeconiah
begat Salathiel: Salathiel begat Zerubbabel:
13
Zerubbabel begat Abiud: Abiud begat
Eliakim: Eliakim begat Azor:
14
Azor begat Zadok: Zadok begat Achim:
Achim begat Eliud:
15
Eliud begat Eleazar: Eleazar begat Matthan:
Matthan begat Jacob:
16
Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of
whom was born Jesus who is called the
Messiah.
17
All the generations, therefore, are, from
Abraham to David fourteen generations, and
from David to the captivity of Babylon fourteen
generations, and from the captivity of Babylon to
the Messiah fourteen generations.
18
And the birth of Jesus the Messiah was thus.
While his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,
before they had cohabited, she was found to be
with child by the Holy Spirit.
19
And Joseph her husband was a righteous
man, and unwilling to expose her: and he
thought of putting her away privately.
20
And while he contemplated these things, an
angel of the LORD appeared to him in a dream,
and said to him: Joseph, son of David, fear not
to take Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived
in her, is from the Holy Spirit:
21
and she will bear a son; and thou shalt call
his name Jesus, for he will resuscitate his
people from their sins.
22
Now all this that occurred, was to fulfill what
was spoken of the LORD by the prophet:
Behold, a virgin will conceive, and will bear a
son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel,
which is interpreted, Our God with us.
24
And when Joseph rose from his sleep, he did
as the angel of the LORD commanded him, and
took his wife.
And he knew her not, until she had borne her
firstborn son, and called is name Jesus.
2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there
came Magi from the east unto Jerusalem,
saying: Where is the king of the Jews that is
born? For we have seen his star in the east, and
have come to worship him.
3
And Herod the king heard, and he was
disturbed; and all Jerusalem with him.
4
And he assembled all the chiefs of the priests
and the scribes of the people, and inquired of
them, Where is the birthplace of the Messiah?
5
And they said: In Bethlehem of Judaea; for
thus it is written in the prophet:
6
Thou also, Bethlehem of Judaea, art not the
little among the kings of Judaea, for a king shall
come from thee who shall rule my people Israel.
7
Then Herod privately called the Magi, and
learned from them at what time the star
appeared to them.
8
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to
them, Go, search diligently for the child; and
when ye have found him, come and tell me, that
I also may go and worship him.
9
And they, when they had heard from the king,
went forward: and lo, the star they had seen in
the east went before them, until it came and
stood over where the child was.
10
And when they saw the star, they rejoiced
much, with great joy.
11
And they entered the house; and they saw
the child, with Mary his mother; and they fell
down and worshipped him: and they opened
their treasures, and presented to him gifts, gold,
and myrrh, and frankincense.
12
And it was shown them in a dream, that they
should not return to Herod. And by another way,
they returned to their country.
13
And when they were gone, an angel of the
LORD appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said
to him, Arise, take the child and his mother, and
flee into Egypt; and be thou there, until I tell

thee: for Herod will seek for the child, to destroy
it.
14
Then Joseph arose, took the child and his
mother, by night, and fled to Egypt.
15
And he was there, until the death of Herod;
that so might be fulfilled that which was spoken
of the LORD by the prophet, saying, From Egypt
have I called my son.
16
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been
deluded by the Magi, was very angry. And he
sent and slew all the children in Bethlehem, and
in all its confines, from a child of two years and
under, according to the time that he had
carefully learned from the Magi.
17
Then was that fulfilled, which was spoken by
Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
18
A voice was heard in Rama, weeping and
great lamentation; Rachel bemoaning her
children, and unwilling to be comforted, because
they are no more.
19
But when king Herod was dead, an angel of
the LORD appeared in a dream to Joseph in
Egypt,
20
and said to him: Arise, take the child and his
mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they
are dead who sought the life of the child.
21
And Joseph arose, and took the child and his
mother, and went to the land of Israel.
22
But when he heard that Archelaus was king in
Judaea, instead of his father Herod, he feared to
go thither. And it was revealed to him in a
dream, that he should go into the land of Galilee.
23
And he came and dwelt in a city that is called
Nazareth: that so might be fulfilled that which
was said by the prophet, that he should be
called a Nazarene.
3:1 And in those days came John the Baptizer.
And he proclaimed in the desert of Judaea,
2 4
and said: Repent; the kingdom of heaven hath
approached.
3
For this is he of whom it was said, by Isaiah
the prophet: The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make smooth his paths.
4
And as to this John, his raiment was of
camel's hair, and a girdle of skin was upon his
loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all
Judaea, and all the country about the Jordan.
6
And they were baptized by him in the river
Jordan, while they confessed their sins.
7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and
of the Sadducees, who came to be baptized, he
said to them: Generation of vipers, who hath
taught you to flee from the wrath that cometh?
8
Bring forth the fruits therefore, that accord with
repentance.
9
And do not think, and say within yourselves,
that Abraham is our father: for I say to you, that
God is able of these stones to raise up children
to Abraham.
10
And lo, the ax is put to the root of trees. Every
tree, therefore, which beareth not good fruit, is
felled, and falleth into the fire.
11
I indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance; but he that cometh after me is more
powerful than I; whose sandals I am not worthy
to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit
and with fire.
12
His winnowing shovel is in his hand; and he
will make clean his threshing-floor. The wheat
he will gather into his storehouse; and the chaff
he will burn with fire not extinguished.
13
Then came Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan
unto John, to be baptized by him.
14
But John refused him; and said, I need to be
baptized by thee, and hast thou come to me?
15
And Jesus answered, and said to him: Allow
it now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all
righteousness. Then he permitted him.
16
And when Jesus was baptized, he went up
immediately from the water. And heaven was
opened to him; and he saw the Holy Spirit
descending like a dove, and it came upon him.
17
And lo, a voice from heaven, which said: This
is my beloved Son, in whom I have delight.
4:1 Then was Jesus led by the Holy Spirit into
the desert, to be tempted by the Calumniator
2
And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and
afterward he hungered.
3
And the Tempter came, and said to him: If
thou art the Son of God, command these stones
to become bread.
But he replied, and said: It is written, that not
by bread only, doth man live; but by every word
proceeding from the mouth of God.
5
Then the Calumniator took him to the holy city,
and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6
and said to him: If thou art the Son of God,
cast thyself down: for it is written, that he will
give his angels charge of thee, and in their
hands will they sustain thee, lest thou strike thy
foot against a stone.
7
Jesus said to him: It is moreover written, that
thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God.
8
Again the Calumniator took him to a mountain
that was very high, and showed him all the
kingdoms of the world, and their glory;
9
and said to him: All these will I give thee, if
thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10
Then Jesus said to him: Begone, Satan; for it
is written, that thou shalt worship the LORD, thy
God; and him only shalt thou serve.
11
Then the Calumniator left him: and lo, angels
came, and ministered to him.
12
And when Jesus had heard that John was
delivered up, he retired to Galilee.
13
And he left Nazareth, and came and dwelt in
Capernaum, by the side of the sea, on the
confines of Zebulon and Naphthali.
14
That so might be fulfilled that which was
spoken by Isaiah the prophet, who said:
15
The land of Zebulon, the land of Naphthali,
the way of the sea, the ford of Jordan, Galilee of
the Gentiles;
16
the people that sat in darkness, have seen
great light; and to them who sat in the region
and shadow of death, light is arisen.
17
From that time began Jesus to proclaim and
say: Repent; for the kingdom of heaven hath
approached.
18
And as he walked on the shore of the sea of
Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called
Cephas, and Andrew his brother, who were
casting nets into the sea; for they were
fishermen.
19
And Jesus said to them: Follow me; and I will
cause you to become fishers of men.
20
And immediately, they left their nets, and
went after him.
21
And as he passed on from there, he saw two
other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and
John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
father, who were mending their nets. And Jesus
called them.
22
And they immediately left the ship and their
father, and went after him.
23
And Jesus traveled over all Galilee. and he
taught in their synagogues and proclaimed the
tidings of the kingdom; and he cured every
disease and malady among the people.
24
And his fame spread through all Syria. And
they brought to him all them that were very sick
with diverse diseases, and them that were
afflicted with pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics
and paralytics; and he healed them.
25
And there followed him great multitudes from
Galilee, and from the Ten Cities, and from
Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond
the Jordan.
5:1 And when Jesus saw the multitudes, he
ascended a hill; and when he was seated, his
disciples drew near him:
2
and he opened his mouth, and taught them,
and said:
3
Blessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom
of heaven is theirs!
4
Blessed are the mourners: for they shall be
comforted!
5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the
earth!
6
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for
righteousness: for they shall be satiated!
7
Blessed are the merciful: for on them shall be
mercies!
8
Blessed are the clean in heart: for they shall
behold God!
9
Blessed are the cultivators of peace: for they
shall be called sons of God!
10
Blessed are they that are persecuted on
account of righteousness: for the kingdom of
heaven is theirs!
11
Blessed are ye, when they revile you and
persecute you, and speak every evil thing
against you, falsely, on my account.
12
At that time, rejoice and be glad: for your
reward in heaven is great. For so they
persecuted the prophets that were before you.
13
Ye are the salt of the earth! But if the salt
become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned?
It is fit for nothing; but to be thrown out, and be
trodden under foot by men.
14
Ye are the light of the world! A city built upon
a hill, cannot be concealed.
15
And they do not light a lamp and place it
under a bushel; but upon a lightstand, and it
giveth light to all that are in the house.
16
Let your light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works, and may glorify your
Father who is in heaven.
17
Do not suppose that I have come to subvert
the law or the prophets: [I have come] not to
subvert, but to fulfill.
18
For verily I say to you, that until heaven and
earth shall pass away, one iota or one letter
shall not pass from the law, until all shall be
fulfilled.
19
Therefore whoever shall break one of these
small commands and shall so inculcate on the
children of men, shall be called little in the
kingdom of heaven: but every one that shall do
and teach [them], shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.
20
For I say to you, that unless your
righteousness shall abound more than that of
the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
21
Ye have heard that it was said to the
ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and every one that
killeth, is obnoxious to judgment.
22
But I say to you, That every one who is angry
with his brother rashly, is obnoxious to
judgment: and every one that saith to his
brother, Raka! is obnoxious to the council: and
every one that shall say, Fool is obnoxious to
hell-fire.
23
If therefore thou shalt bring thy oblation to the
altar, and shalt there remember that thy brother
hath any offence against thee,
24
leave there thy oblation before the altar, and
go first and be reconciled with thy brother; and
then come and present thy oblation.
25
Be at agreement with thy prosecutor,
forthwith, and while on the way with him; lest the
prosecutor deliver thee up to the judge, and the
Judge deliver thee over to the sheriff, and thou
fall into the house of prisoners.
26
Verily I say to thee, Thou wilt not come out
from there until thou hast paid the last farthing.
27
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou
shalt not commit adultery.
28
But I say to you, That whoever gazeth on a
woman with concupiscence, at once committeth
adultery with her in his heart.
29
If therefore thy right eye make thee offend,
pluck it out, and cast it from thee; because it is
better for thee that thy one member perish, than
that thy whole body fall into hell.
30
And if thy right hand make thee offend, cut it
off, and cast it from thee; because it is better for
thee that one of thy members perish, than that
thy whole body fall into hell.
31
It hath been said, That if a man will put away
his wife, he must give her a writing of
divorcement.
32
But I say to you, That whoever putteth away
his wife, except for the offence of whoredom,
causeth her to commit adultery: and he that
taketh the divorced woman, committeth adultery.
33
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said to
the ancients, Thou shalt not be false in thy
oaths; but thou shalt perform thine oaths to the
LORD.
34
But I say to you, Swear not at all: not by
heaven, for it is the throne of God:
35
and not by the earth, for it is the footstool
under his feet: and likewise not by Jerusalem,
for it is the city of the great king.
36
Moreover, thou shalt not swear by thy head,
for thou canst not make one hair in it either black
or white.
37
But let your language be, Yes, yes; or No, no;
for whatever is beyond these proceedeth from
evil.
38
Ye have heard that it hath been said: An eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
39
But I say to you: Resist not evil; but if a
person smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him
the other also.
40
And if one is disposed to sue thee and get
away thy coat, relinquish to him also thy cloak.
41
Whoever compelleth thee to go one mile, go
with him two.
42
Whoever demandeth of thee, give to him: and
whoever wisheth to borrow of thee, deny him
not.
43
Ye have heard that it hath been said: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy.
44
But I say to you: Love your enemies; and
bless him that curseth you; and do good to him
that hateth you; and pray for them that lead you
in bonds, and that persecute you:
45
that ye may be the children of your Father
that is in heaven, who causeth his sun to rise
upon the good and upon the bad, and sendeth
his rain upon the righteous and upon the
unrighteous.
46
For, if ye love them that love you, what
reward have ye? Do not even the publicans do
this?
47
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do
ye that is not common? Do not even publicans
do this?
48
Be ye therefore perfect; even as your Father
who is in heaven is perfect.
6:1 Be cautious in your alms-giving, not to
perform it before men, so that ye may be seen of
them: otherwise, ye have no reward from your
Father who is in heaven.
2
Therefore, when thou doest alms thou shalt
not sound a trumpet before thee, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may get praise from men.
Verily I say to you, They have gotten their
reward.
3
But thou, when doing alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4
that thy alms may be in secret. And thy Father,
who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.
5
And when thou prayest. thou shalt not be like
the hypocrites, who are fond of standing up in
the synagogues and at the corners of streets to
pray, so that they may be seen by people. Verily
I say to you, they have gotten their reward.
6
But thou, when thou prayest enter into thy
closet and close the door, and pray to thy Father
who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in
secret, will reward thee openly.
7
And when ye pray, be not garrulous like the
heathen; for they expect to be heard for their
abundance of words.
8 28
Therefore, be not like them; for your Father
knoweth what is needful for you, before ye ask
him.
9 29
In this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father
who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name:
10
Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done; as in
heaven, so on earth:
11
Give us our needful bread, this day:
12
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our
debtors:
13
And bring us not into temptation, but deliver
us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever and ever: Amen.
14
For if ye forgive men their faults, your Father
who is in heaven will also forgive you.
15
But if ye shall not forgive men, your Father
also forgiveth not you your faults.
16
And when ye fast, be not sad like the
hypocrites. For they distort their faces, that they
may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say to you,
they have gotten their reward.
17
But, when thou fastest, wash thou thy face,
and anoint thy head:
18
that thou mayest not be seen by men as a
faster, but by thy Father who is in secret: and thy
Father who seeth in secret, will recompense
thee.
19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the
earth, where moth and rust spoil, and where
thieves dig through and steal.
20
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where no moth and no rust can spoil, and no
thieves dig through nor steal.
21
For where your treasure is, there will your
heart also be.
22
The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore
thy eye shall be sound, thy whole body will be
luminous.
23
But if thy eye shall be diseased, thy whole
body will be dark. If then the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great will be thy darkness!
24
No man can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one and love the other, or he will
honor the one and neglect the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.
25
Therefore I say to you: Be not anxious about
your life, what ye shall eat, and what ye shall
drink; nor about your body, how ye shall clothe
yourselves. Is not the life more important than
food, and the body than raiment?
26
Look at the birds of heaven; which sow not,
and reap not, and gather not into storehouses,
but your Father who is in heaven feedeth them.
Are not ye more important than they?
27
And who of you that shall be anxious, can
add to his stature a cubit?
And about raiment, why are ye anxious?
Consider the lilies of the desert, in what manner
they grow. They toil not; and they spin not.
Yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all
his glory, was arrayed like one of them.
30
And if God so clothe the grass of the field,
which exists to-day, and tomorrow falls into the
oven, will he not much more [clothe] you, ye
small in faith?
31
Therefore be not anxious; nor say, What shall
we eat, or what shall we drink; or wherewith be
clothed?
32 1
For, all these things the people of the world
seek after. And your Father, who is in heaven,
knoweth that all these things are needful to you.
33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness: and all these things shall be
added to you.
34
Therefore be not anxious about the morrow:
for the morrow hath its own anxieties. Sufficient
for the day, is its own evil.
7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2
For with the judgment that ye judge, ye shall
be judged; and by the measure that ye measure,
shall it be measured to you.
3
And why observest thou the straw in thy
brother's eye, and regardest not the beam that is
in thine own eye?
4
Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Allow
me to pluck the straw from thy eye; and lo! a
beam is in thy own eye.
5
Thou hypocrite; pluck first the beam from thy
own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly, to pluck
the straw out of thy brother's eye.
6
Give not a holy thing to dogs: and cast not
your pearls before swine; lest they tread them
under their feet, and turn and lacerate you.
7
Ask, and it shall be given to you: seek, and ye
shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
8
For, every one that asketh, receiveth: and he
that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it
shall be opened.
9
For what man is there among you, of whom if
his son ask bread, will he reach him a stone?
10
Or if he ask of him a fish, will he reach him a
serpent?
11
If ye then, who are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father who is in heaven give good things to
them that ask him?
1
Matthew 6:32 – Most Western Peshitto mss omit
“of the World.” However, it is present in most
Eastern Peshitta mss.
12
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you; so also do ye to them: for this is the law
and the prophets.
13
Enter ye in by the strait gate; for wide is the
gate and broad the way which leadeth to
destruction; and many are they that walk in it.
14
How small the gate and straitened the way
that leadeth to life, and few they who find it!
15
Beware of false prophets; who come to you in
the garb of sheep, but internally they are
rapacious wolves.
16
And from their fruits ye shall know them. Do
men gather grapes from thorn bushes; or figs
from thistles?
17
So every good tree beareth good fruits; but a
bad tree beareth bad fruits.
18
A good tree cannot bear bad fruits; nor can a
bad tree bear good fruits.
19
Every tree that beareth not good fruits, is cut
down and consigned to the fire.
20
Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.
21
Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my
Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but
he that doeth the will of my Father who is in
heaven.
22
Many will say to me in that day, My Lord, my
Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and
in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name
wrought many works of power?
23
And then will I declare to them; I never knew
you. Depart from me, ye doers of evil.
24
Every one therefore that heareth these my
discourses, and doeth them, will be like to a
wise man, one that built his house upon a rock.
25
And the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew; and they rushed
upon that house; and it fell not, for its
foundations were laid upon a rock.
26
And every one that heareth these my
discourses, and doeth them not, will be like a
foolish man that built his house upon sand.
27
And the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew; and they rushed
upon that house, and it fell; and great was the
ruin of it.
28
And so it was, that when Jesus had ended
these discourses, the multitudes were
astonished at his teaching:
29
for he taught them as one having authority;
and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.
8:1 And as he descended from the mountain,
great multitudes gathered around him.
2 20
And behold, a leper came and worshipped
him, and said: My Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean.
3
And Jesus stretched forth his hand, touched
him, and said: I will: be thou clean. And
immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
4
And Jesus said to him, See, thou tell no man:
but go, show thyself to the priests, and present
an oblation as Moses enjoined, for a testimony
to them.
5
And when Jesus had entered into Capernaum,
a centurion came to him, and besought him,
6
and said: My Lord, my child lieth at home and
is paralytic, and badly afflicted.
7
Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him.
8
The centurion replied, and said: My Lord, I am
not worthy that thou shouldst come under my
roof: but speak the word only, and my child will
be healed.
9
For I also am a man under authority, and there
are soldiers under my hands, and I say to this
one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come,
and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this thing,
and he doeth [it].
10
And when Jesus heard [this], he admired [it];
and he said to those walking with him, Verily I
say to you, I have not found faith like this even in
Israel.
11
And I say to you, that many shall come from
the east, and from the west, and shall recline
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the
kingdom of heaven;
12
but the children of the kingdom shall go forth
into the outer darkness. There will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
13
And Jesus said to the centurion. Go; be it to
thee as thou hast believed. And his child was
cured in that same hour.
14
And Jesus came to the house of Simon and
saw his wife's mother prostrate, confined by a
fever.
15
And he touched her hand, and the fever left
her: and she arose and ministered to them.
16
And when it was evening, they brought many
demoniacs before him; and he expelled their
demons by a word, and healed all them that
were diseased:
17
that so might be fulfilled that which was
spoken by Isaiah the prophet, who said: He will
bear our sorrows, and our infirmities he will take
upon him.
18
And when Jesus saw great multitudes,
around him, he ordered that they should go to
the opposite shore.
19
And a Scribe came and said to him: Rabbi, I
will follow thee to the place whither thou goest.
Jesus said to him, For foxes there are holes,
and for the birds of heaven there are nests; but

for the Son of man, there is not where he may
recline his head.
21
And another of his disciples said to him: My
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22
But Jesus said to him: Follow thou me, and
leave the dead to bury their dead.
23
And when Jesus entered the ship, his
disciples embarked with him.
24
And lo, a great commotion arose in the sea,
so that the vessel was covered by the waves.
But Jesus was asleep:
25
and his disciples came to awake him, and
said to him: Our Lord, deliver us; we are
perishing!
26
Jesus said to them, Why are ye afraid, ye
small in faith! Then he arose, and rebuked the
wind and the sea; and there was great
tranquillity.
27
And the men were amazed; and they said,
What a man is this, to whom the winds and the
sea are obedient!
28
And when Jesus arrived at the farther shore,
in the country of the Gadarenes, there met him
two demoniacs, who came out from the
sepulchres, very furious, so that no one could
pass that way.
29
And they cried out, and said: What have we
to do with thee? Jesus, thou Son of God. Hast
thou come hither before the time to torment us?
30
And at a distance from them there was a herd
of many swine feeding
31
And the demons entreated of him, and said: If
thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of
swine.
32
And Jesus said to them, Go ye. And
immediately they came out, and entered into the
swine; and that whole herd ran straight to a
precipice and plunged into the sea, and perished
in the waters.
33
And the herdsmen fled, and entered the city,
and related all that had occurred, and
concerning the demoniacs.
34
And all the city came out to meet Jesus: and
when they saw him, they besought him to retire
from their coasts.
9:1 And he entered the ship, and passed over
and came to his own city.
2
And they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a
bed. And Jesus saw their faith, and said to the
paralytic: Take courage, my son; thy sins are
forgiven thee.
3 22
And some of the Scribes said in their minds,
This man blasphemeth.
4
But Jesus knew their thoughts: and he said to
them, Why do ye think evil [things] in your heart?
5
For, which is the easier, to say, Thy sins are
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk?
6
But that ye may know that the Son of man
hath authority on earth to forgive sins, he said to
the paralytic: Arise, take up thy bed, and go to
thy home.
7
And he arose and went to his home.
8
And when the multitudes saw [it], they were
struck with awe; and they praised God, who had
given authority like this to men.
9
And as Jesus passed on from there, he saw a
man sitting at the custom-house, whose name
was Matthew. And he said to him, Follow me:
and he arose and followed him.
10
And as they were reclining in a house, many
publicans an sinners came and reclined with
Jesus and his disciples.
11
And when the Pharisees saw [it] they said to
his disciples, Why doth your Rabbi eat with
publicans and sinners?
12
And as Jesus heard [it], he said to them:
They who are in health have no need of a
physician, but they that are very sick.
13
Go and learn what that is: I require
compassion, and not a sacrifice! For I did not
come to call the righteous, but the sinful.
14
Then came to him the disciples of John, and
said: Why do we and the Pharisees fast much
and thy disciples fast not?
15
Jesus said to them: Can the children of the
nuptial chamber fast, so long as the bridegroom
is with them? But the days will come when the
bridegroom will be taken from them, and then
they will fast.
16
No one inserteth a piece of new cloth on an
old garment; lest that which filleth up, tear from
that garment, and the rent become greater.
17
And they do not put new wine into old sacks;
lest the sacks burst, and the wine run out, and
the sacks perish. But they put new wine into new
sacks and they are both preserved.
18
And while he was thus discoursing with them
a certain ruler came, drew near, worshipped him
and said: My daughter is already dead, but
come lay thy hand upon her, and she will live.
19
And Jesus rose up, and his disciples; and
they followed him.
20
And behold, a woman whose blood had
flowed fourteen years, came up behind him, and
touched the extremity of his robe:
21
for she had said in her mind, If I but touch his
garment I shall be cured.
And Jesus turned himself, looked at her, and
said to her: Take courage, my daughter; thy faith
hath given thee life. And the woman was cured
from that very hour.
23
And Jesus came to the house of the ruler:
and he saw there pipers, and multitudes making
outcry.
24
And he said to them: Retire; for the maid is
not dead, but sleepeth. And they scoffed at him.
25
And when he had ejected the throngs, he
entered in, and took her by the hand, and the
maid rose up.
26
And the fame of this [thing] spread in all that
land.
27
And when Jesus had passed from there, two
blind men followed after him, and said: Have
mercy on us, Thou Son of David!
28
And when he had entered a house, those
blind men approached him, and Jesus said to
them: Believe ye that I am able to do this? They
said to him, Yes, our Lord.
29
Then he touched their eyes, and said: As ye
have believed, so shall it be to you.
30
And forthwith their eyes were opened. And
Jesus charged them and said: See, that no man
know [of it].
31
But they went out and spread the fame of it in
all that land.
32
And as Jesus went out, they brought to him a
dumb man in whom was a demon.
33
And when the demon had gone out, the dumb
man conversed. And the multitudes admired,
and said: Never was it so seen in Israel!
34
But the Pharisees said: It is by the Prince of
demons, he casteth out demons.
35
And Jesus traveled over all the cities and the
villages: and he taught in their synagogues, and
proclaimed the tidings of the kingdom, and
healed all diseases and all pains.
36
And when Jesus looked on the multitudes, he
pitied them; because they were wearied and
dispersed, like sheep that have no shepherd.
37
And he said to his disciples, The harvest is
great, and the laborers few.
38
Entreat, therefore, of the Lord of the harvest,
that he would send laborers into his harvest.
10:1 And he called his twelve disciples [to him],
and gave them authority over unclean spirits to
cast them out, and to heal every pain and
disease.
2 21
And the names of those twelve Legates are
these: The first of them, Simon who is called
Cephas, and Andrew his brother; and James the
son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
3
and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Thomas,
and Matthew the publican; and James the son of
Alpheus, and Lebbeus who was called
Thaddeus;
4
and Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot,
he who betrayed him.
5
These twelve Jesus sent forth: and he
commanded them and said: Go not in the way of
the Gentiles: and enter not the cities of the
Samaritans.
6
But, go ye rather to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel.
7
And as ye go, proclaim and say: The kingdom
of heaven hath approached.
8
Heal ye the sick; cleanse the leprous; [raise
the dead;] and cast out demons. Freely ye have
received; freely give.
9
Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your
purses;
10
nor a wallet for the journey: neither two coats,
nor shoes, nor a staff. For the laborer is worthy
of his food.
11
And into whatever city or town ye enter,
inquire, who in it is worthy; and there stay until
ye depart.
12
And when ye enter a house, salute the
household.
13
And if the house be worthy, your peace will
come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace
will return upon yourselves.
14
And whoever will not receive you, nor hear
your discourses, when ye depart from that
house or that town, shake off the dust from your
feet.
15
Verily I say to you, that it will be comfortable
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
of judgment, rather than for that city.
16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep among
wolves. Therefore be ye sagacious as serpents,
and guileless as doves.
17
And beware of men; for they will deliver you
over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in
their synagogues.
18
And they will bring you before governors and
kings, on my account, for a testimony to them
and to the Gentiles.
19
And when they deliver you up, be not anxious
how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given
you in that hour what to say.
20
For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit of
your Father speaking in you.
And brother shall deliver up his brother to
death, and a father his son; and children shall
rise up against parents, and cause them to die.
22
And ye shall be hated by every one, on
account of my name. But he that shall endure to
the end, shall have life.
23
And when they persecute you in one city, flee
to another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not
have completed all the cities of the house of
Israel, till the Son of man shall come.
24
No disciple is better than his rabbi; nor a
servant, than his lord.
25
It is sufficient for the disciple, that he be as
his rabbi; and the servant, as his lord. If they call
the lord of the house Beelzebub, how much
more the children of his family?
26
Therefore be not afraid of them; for there is
nothing covered up, that shall not be exposed;
nor concealed, that shall not become known.
27
Whatever I say to you in the dark, that speak
ye in the light; and what ye have heard in your
ears, proclaim ye on the housetops.
28
And be not afraid of them that kill the body,
but cannot kill the soul; but be afraid rather of
Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet
one of them doth not fall to the ground without
your Father.
30
As for you, even the hairs of your head are all
numbered.
31
Therefore be not afraid: ye are more
important than many sparrows.
32
Wherefore, whoever shall confess me before
men, him will I also confess before my Father
who is in heaven.
33
But whoever shall deny me before men, him
will I also deny before my Father who is in
heaven.
34
Think not that I have come to sow quietness
on the earth: I have not come to sow quietness,
but conflict.
35
For I have come to set a man against his
father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36
And a man's foes will be the members of his
household.
37
He that loveth father or mother more than me,
is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:
38
and he that doth not bear his cross and follow
after me, is not worthy of me.
39
He that preserveth his life, shall lose it: and
he that loseth his life for my sake, shall preserve
it.
40
He that entertaineth you, entertaineth me:
and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him
that sent me.
41
He that entertaineth a prophet in the name of
a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward: and
he that entertaineth a righteous man in the name
of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous
man's reward.
42
And whoever shall give one of these little
ones to drink a cup of cold [water] only, in the
name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall
not lose his reward.
11:1 And when Jesus had ended the
instructions to his twelve disciples, he went from
there, to teach and to proclaim in their cities.
2
Now when John, in the house of prisoners,
heard of the works of Messiah, he sent by the
hand of his disciples,
3
and said to him: Art thou he that cometh, or
are we to expect another?
4
Jesus answered, and said to them: Go, tell
John the things that ye hear and see:
5
the blind see, and the lame walk, and the
leprous are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the
dead rise up, and the needy hear good tidings:
6
and happy is he, who shall not be stumbled at
me.
7
And when they were gone, Jesus began to
say to the multitudes, concerning John: What
went ye into the wilderness to see? A reed that
waved in the wind?
8
And if not; what went ye out to see? A man
clothed in delicate robes? Lo, they that are
clothed in delicate [robes], are in the dwelling of
kings.
9
And if not; what went ye out to see? A
prophet? Yes, say I to you, and more than a
prophet.
10
For this is he of whom it is written: Behold, I
send my messenger before thy face, that he
may prepare the way before thee.
11
Verily I say to you, Among those born of
women, there hath not arisen a greater than
John the Baptizer: yet the small one in the
kingdom of heaven, is greater than he.
12
And from the days of John the Baptizer, until
now, the kingdom of heaven is assailed by force,
and the violent seize it.
13
For all the prophets and the law prophesied,
until the time of John.
14
And, if ye are willing, receive ye, that this is
he who was to come.
15
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!
16
But to what shall I compare this generation? It
is like to children, that sit in the marketplace and
call to their associates,
17
and say: We have sung to you, and ye did not
dance: we have wailed to you, and ye did not
lament.
18
For John came, not eating and not drinking;
and they said, He hath a demon.
19
The Son of man came, eating and drinking;
and they say: Behold, a gluttonous man, and a
wine drinker, and a friend of publicans and
sinners. But wisdom is justified by her works.
20
Then began Jesus to reproach the cities, in
which his many deeds of power were wrought,
yet they repented not.
21
And he said: Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to
thee, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done
in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
doubtless, they would long ago have repented in
sackcloth and ashes.
22
But I say to you, It will be comfortable for Tyre
and Sidon, in the day of judgment, rather than
for you.
23
And thou, Capernaum, which hast been lifted
up to heaven, shalt be brought down to the
grave. For if those deeds of power which were
done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would
have stood to this day.
24
But I say to thee, It will be comfortable for the
land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, rather
than for thee.
25
At that time Jesus answered and said: I
praise thee, O my Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that thou hast hid these things from the
wise and knowing, and hast revealed them to
little children.
26
Yes, my Father; for so it seemed good before
thee.
27
Every thing is given up by my Father to me.
And no one knoweth the Son, except the Father.
Also, no one knoweth the Father, except the
Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to
reveal [him].
28
Come unto me, all ye wearied and heavily
burdened, and I will ease you.
29
Take my yoke upon you; and learn from me,
that I am gentle and subdued in my heart: and
ye will find rest for your souls:
30
for my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is
light.
12:1 At that time Jesus, on the sabbath, walked
in the tillage grounds: and his disciples were
hungry, and began to pluck the ears and to eat.
2 22
And when the Pharisees saw them, they said
to him: See; thy disciples are doing that which it
is not lawful to do on the sabbath.
3 23
But he said to them, Have ye not read what
David did when he was hungry, and they that
were with him?
4
How he went to the house of God, and ate the
bread of the LORD's table; which it was not lawful
for him to eat, nor for them that were with him,
but solely for the priests?
5
Or have ye not read in the law, how that in the
temple the priests profane the sabbath, and are
without fault?
6
But I say to you, that a greater than the temple
is here.
7
And if ye had known what that is, I desire
mercy, and not sacrifice; ye would not have
criminated them who are without fault.
8
For the Son of man, is lord of the sabbath.
9
And Jesus went from there, and came to their
synagogue.
10
And a man was there, whose hand was
withered. And they questioned him and said, Is it
lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might
defame him.
11
And he said to them, What man among you is
there, who, if he have a sheep, and it fall into a
pit on the day of the sabbath, doth not lay hold
of it and lift it out?
12
Now, how much better is a human being than
a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do what is
good, on the sabbath.
13
Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thy
hand. And he stretched out his hand; and it was
restored, and like the other.
14
And the Pharisees went out and held a
consultation against him, that they might destroy
him.
15
But Jesus knew [it]; and he retired from there.
And great multitudes followed him: and he cured
them all.
16
And he charged them not to make him
known:
17
that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah
might be fulfilled, saying:
18
Behold my servant, in whom I have
complacency; my beloved, in whom my soul
delighteth. I will put my spirit upon him; and he
shall proclaim judgment to the Gentiles.
19
He shall not contend, nor be clamorous, nor
shall any one hear his voice in the market-place.
20
The crushed reed he will not break; and the
flickering lamp he will not extinguish; until he
bring judgment to be victorious.
21
And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Then they brought to him a demoniac that
was dumb and blind; and he healed him, so that
the dumb and blind man both talked and saw.
And all the multitude were amazed, and said:
Is not this the son of David?
24
But when the Pharisees heard [it], they said:
This man doth not cast out demons, except by
Beelzebub the prince of demons.
25
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to
them: Every kingdom that is divided against
itself, will become desolate; and every house or
city which is divided against itself, will not stand.
26
Now if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided
against himself; how then doth his kingdom
stand?
27
And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by
whom do your children cast them out?
Wherefore they will be your judges.
28
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons,
the kingdom of God hath come near to you.
29
Or how can one enter the house of a strong
man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind
the strong man? and then he may plunder his
house.
30
He that is not with me, is against me; and he
that gathereth not with me actually scattereth.
31
Therefore I say to you, that all sins and
contumelies shall be forgiven to men; but the
contumely which is against the Spirit, shall not
be forgiven to men.
32
And whoever shall speak a word against the
Son of man, it will be forgiven him: but whoever
shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it will not be
forgiven him;---not in this world, and not in the
world to come.
33
Either make the tree good, and its fruits good;
or make the tree bad, and its fruits bad: for a
tree is known by its fruits.
34
Offspring of vipers, how can ye who are evil,
speak good things? For out of the fullnesses of
the heart the mouth speaketh.
35
A good man out of good treasures bringeth
forth good things, and a bad man out of bad
treasures bringeth forth bad things.
36
For I say to you, That for every idle word that
men shall speak, they shall give account of it in
the day of judgment.
37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified; and
by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
38
Then answered some of the Scribes and of
the Pharisees, and said to him: Teacher, we
wish to see from thee a sign.
39
But he replied and said to them: A wicked
and adulterous generation demandeth a sign:
but a sign will not be given to it, unless it be the
sign of Jonah the prophet.
40
For as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three
days and three nights; so will the Son of man be
in the heart of the earth three days and three
nights.
41
The people of Nineveh will stand up in the
judgment against this generation, and will
condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of
Jonah; and lo, a greater than Jonah is here.
42
The queen of the south will stand up in the
judgment against this generation, and will
condemn it: for she came from the extremities of
the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo,
a superior to Solomon is here.
43
And when an unclean spirit goeth out of a
man, it wandereth in places where is no water,
and seeketh comfort and findeth [it] not.
44
Then it saith: I will return to my house, from
which I came out. And it cometh, and findeth it
vacated, and swept clean, and set in order.
45
So it goeth and taketh with it seven other
spirits, worse than itself, and they enter and
dwell in it; and the end of that man is worse than
his beginning. So will it be to this evil generation.
46
And while he was discoursing to the
multitudes, his mother and his brothers came
and stood without, and sought to speak with
him.
47
And a person said to him: Lo, thy mother and
thy brothers stand without, and seek to speak
with thee.
48
But he replied, and said to him that informed
him: Who is my mother? and who are my
brothers?
49
And he stretched forth his hand towards his
disciples, and said: Behold my mother, and
behold my brothers!
50
For every one that doeth the good pleasure of
my Father who is in heaven, that person is my
brother, and my sister, and my mother.
13:1 And on that day Jesus went out of the
house, and sat by the side of the sea.
2
And great multitudes assembled around him;
so that he embarked and seated himself in a
ship, and all the multitude stood on the shore of
the sea.
3
An he discoursed with them much, by
similitudes. And he said, Behold, a sower went
forth to sow.
4
And as he sowed, some [seed] fell upon the
side of a path: and a bird came and devoured it.
5
And other [seed] fell upon a rock, so that it had
not much soil: and it sprung up forthwith,
because there was no depth of earth.
6
But when the sun was up it wilted. And,
because it lacked root, it dried up.
7
And other [seed] fell among thorns: and the
thorns shot up, and choked it.
8
And other [seed] fell on good ground; and bore
fruits, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and
some thirtyfold.
9
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10
And his disciples came and said to him, Why
discoursest thou to them in similitudes?
11
And he answered, and said to them:
Because, to you it is given to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not
given.
12
For to him that hath, shall be given; and he
shall abound: but from him that hath not, even
what he hath shall be taken from him.
13
For this cause I discourse to them in
similitudes, because they see and do not see,
and they hear and do not hear, nor understand.
14
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,
who said: By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not
understand; and by seeing ye see, and shall not
know:
15
For the heart of this people hath grown fat,
and with their ears they have heard heavily, and
their eyes they have closed; lest they should see
with their eyes, and should hear with their ears,
and should understand with their heart, and
should turn; and I should heal them.
16
But happy are your eyes, for they see; and
your ears, for they hear.
17
For verily I say to you, That many prophets
and righteous [men] longed to see what ye see,
and did not see [it]; and to hear what ye hear,
and did not hear [it].
18
But hear ye the similitude of the seed.
19
Every one that heareth the word of the
kingdom, and understandeth it not, the evil one
cometh and snatcheth away the seed sowed in
his heart: this is what was sowed by the side of
the path.
20
And that which was sowed on the rock, is he
that heareth the word, and at once receiveth it
with joy.
21
Yet hath he no root in him, but is of short
duration; and when there is trouble or
persecution on account of the word, he soon
stumbleth.
22
And that which was sowed among thorns, is
he that heareth the word; and care for this world
and the deceptiveness of riches, choke the
word; and he is without fruits.
23
But that which was sowed on good ground, is
he that heareth my word, and understandeth.
and beareth fruits, and yieldeth, some a
hundredfold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.
24
Another similitude he proposed to them, and
said: The kingdom of heaven is like to a man
who sowed good seed in his field.
25
And while people were asleep, his enemy
came and sowed tares among the wheat, and
went away.
26
And when the plant shot up and bore fruits,
then appeared also the tares.
27
And the servants of the householder came,
and said to him, Our lord, didst thou not sow
good seed in thy field? From whence are the
tares in it.
28
And he said to them, An enemy hath done
this. The servants said to him, Is it thy pleasure
that we go and gather them out?
29
And he said to them, [No,] lest, while ye
gather out the tares, ye also eradicate the wheat
with them.
30
Let them both grow together until the harvest;
and at the time of harvest, I will say to the
reapers, Gather out first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to be burned; but the wheat
gather ye into my granary.
31
Another similitude proposed he to them, and
said: The kingdom of heaven is like to a kernel
of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed
in his field.
32
And this is the least of all seeds; but when it
is grown, it is greater than all the herbs, and
becometh a tree, so that a bird of heaven may
come and nestle in its branches.
33
Another similitude spake he to them, The
kingdom of heaven is like the leaven, which a
woman took and buried in three measures of
meal, until the whole fermented.
34
All these things Jesus discoursed to the
multitude in similitudes; and without similitudes
he did not discourse with them.
35
That so might be fulfilled that which was
spoken by the prophet, who said: I will open my
mouth in similitudes; I will utter things concealed
from before the foundation of the world.
36
Then Jesus sent away the multitudes, and
went into the house. And his disciples came to
him, and said: Explain to us the similitude of the
tares and the field.
37
And he answered, and said to them: He that
soweth the good seed, is the Son of God.
38
And the field is the world. And the good seed
are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are
the children of the wicked One.
39
The enemy that sowed them, is Satan. The
harvest is the end of the world: and the reapers
are the angels.
40
As therefore the tares are gathered and
burned in the fire; so will it be in the end of the
world.
41
The Son of man will send forth his angels,
and they will gather out of his kingdom all the
stumbling blocks, and all the doers of evil;
42
and will cast them into a furnace of fire. There
will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43
Then will the righteous shine as the sun, in
the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear.
44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
treasure that is hid in a field; which when a man
findeth, he concealeth it, and, from his joy, he
goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth
that field.
45
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
merchantman, who sought after rich pearls:
46
and when he found one pearl of great price,
he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
47
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a sweep
net, which was cast into the sea, and collected
[fishes] of every kind.
48
And when it was full, they drew it to the
shores of the sea; and they sat down and culled
over: and the good they put into vessels, and the
bad they cast away.
49
So will it be in the end of the world. The
angels will go forth, and will sever the wicked
from among the just;
50
and will cast them into a furnace of fire. There
will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
51
Jesus said to them: Have ye understood all
these things? They say to him: Yes, our Lord.
52
He said to them: Therefore every Scribe who
is instructed for the kingdom of heaven, is like a
man who is master of a house, who bringeth
forth from his treasures things new and old.
53
And it was so, that when Jesus had ended
these similitudes, he departed thence.
54
And he entered into his own city. And he
taught them in their synagogues, in such
manner that they wondered, and said: Whence
hath he this wisdom and [these] works of
power?
55
Is not this man the carpenter's son? Is not his
mother called Mary, and his brothers James and
Joses and Simon and Judas?
56
And all his sisters, are they not with us?
Whence then hath this man all these things?
57
And they were stumbled at him. But Jesus
said to them: There is no prophet who is little,
except in his own city and in his own house.
58
And he did not perform there many works of
power, because of their unbelief.
14:1 And at that time Herod the Tetrarch heard
the fame of Jesus:
2 22
and he said to his servants: This is John the
Baptizer: he is risen from the grave: therefore
works of power are wrought by him.
3 23
Now this Herod had seized John, and bound
him and cast him into prison; on account of
Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.
4 24
For John had said to him: It is not lawful for
her to be thy wife.
5
And he had wished to kill him; but he was
afraid of the people, seeing that they regarded
him as a prophet.
6
But when Herod's birthday festival occurred,
the daughter of Herodias danced before the
guests; and she pleased Herod.
7
Therefore he swore to her by an oath, that he
would give her whatsoever she might ask.
8
And she, as she had been instructed by her
mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of
John the Baptizer.
9
And it troubled the king: nevertheless, on
account of the oath, and the guests, he
commanded that it should be given her.
10
And he sent and cut off the head of John in
the prison.
11
And the head was brought in a dish and given
to the girl; and she brought it to her mother.
12
And his disciples came and bore away the
corpse, and buried [it]; and they went and
informed Jesus.
13
And Jesus, when he had heard [it], retired
alone, in a ship, to a desert place. And when the
multitudes heard [of it], they followed him by dry
land from the cities.
14
And when Jesus disembarked, he saw great
multitudes; and he had compassion on them,
and healed their sick.
15
And when it was evening, his disciples came
to him, and said to him: This is a desert place,
and the time is gone; send away the throngs of
people, that they may go to the villages, and buy
themselves food.
16
But he said to them: It is not necessary for
them to go; give ye them to eat.
17
And they said to him: We have nothing here
but five cakes and two fishes.
18
Jesus said to them: Bring them here to me.
19
And he commanded the multitudes to recline
on the ground: and he took the five cakes and
two fishes, and he looked towards heaven, and
blessed, and brake, and gave to his disciples;
and the disciples placed before the multitudes.
20
And they all ate, and were satisfied: and they
took up the broken remains, twelve full baskets.
21
And the men who had eaten were five
thousand, besides the women and children.
And immediately he constrained his disciples
to embark in a ship, and to go before him to the
other side, while he sent away the multitudes.
And when he had sent the multitudes away,
he ascended a mountain alone to pray. And
when it was dark, he was there alone.
And the ship was distant from land many
furlongs: meanwhile it was much tossed by the
waves; for the wind was adverse to it.
25
And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus
came up to them, walking upon the waters.
26
And his disciples saw him as he walked upon
the waters, and they were perturbated: and they
said, What we see is a spectre: and they cried
out through fear.
27
But Jesus immediately spoke to them, and
said: Have courage: it is I; be not afraid.
28
Cephas replied, and said to him: My Lord, if it
be thou, bid me come to thee on the waters.
29
And Jesus said to him, Come. And Cephas
descended from the ship, and walked upon the
waters to go to Jesus.
30
But when he saw the wind to be violent, he
was afraid, and began to sink. And he raised his
voice, and said: My Lord, rescue me.
31
And immediately our Lord reached forth his
hand, and caught him, and said to him: O small
in faith, why didst thou distrust!
32
And as they entered the ship, the wind
subsided.
33
And they that were in the ship, came and
worshipped him, and said: Truly thou art the Son
of God!
34
And they rowed on, and came to the land of
Gennesaret.
35
And the men of that place knew him: and they
sent to all the villages around them; and they
brought to him all that were very sick;
36
and they entreated of him, that they might
touch at least the extremity of his garment. And
they who touched, were healed.
15:1 Then came to Jesus Pharisees and Scribes
that were from Jerusalem, and said:
2
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of
the elders, and wash not their hands when they
eat bread?
3
Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye
also transgress the commandment of God, on
account of your tradition?
4
For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy
mother; and he that revileth his father or his
mother, shall be put to death.
5
But ye say: Whosoever shall say to a father or
to a mother, Be that my offering, by which ye get
profit from me: then he must not honor his father
or his mother.
6
And [thus] ye make void the word of God, for
the sake of your tradition.
7 28
Ye hypocrites, well did the prophet Isaiah
prophesy of you, and say:
8
This people honoreth me with the lips, but
their heart is far from me.
9
And in vain they pay me homage, while they
teach doctrines that are the precepts of men.
10
And he called the multitudes, and said to
them, Hear and understand.
11
Not that which entereth the mouth, defileth a
man; but that which proceedeth from the mouth,
that defileth a man.
12
Then came his disciples, and said to him:
Knowest thou, that the Pharisees were offended
when they heard that speech?
13
And he replied, and said to them: Every plant,
which my Father who is in heaven hath not
planted, shall be eradicated.
14
Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the
blind. And if a blind man leadeth one blind, they
will both fall into the ditch.
15
And Simon Cephas answered and said to
him: My Lord, explain to us this similitude.
16
And he said to them: Are ye also, up to this
time, without understanding?
17
Know ye not, that whatever entereth the
mouth, passeth into the belly, and from there is
ejected by purgation?
18
But that which proceedeth from the mouth,
cometh from the heart: and that is what defileth
a man.
19
For, from the heart proceed evil thoughts,
adultery, murder, whoredom, theft, false
testimony, reviling.
20
These are the things that defile a man. But if
a man eat while his hands are unwashed, he is
not defiled.
21
And Jesus departed from there, and went to
the confines of Tyre and Sidon.
22
And lo, a woman, a Canaanitess from those
confines, came forth, calling out and saying:
Compassionate me, my Lord, thou son of David:
my daughter is grievously distressed by a
demon.
23
But he answered her not a word. And his
disciples came and requested of him, and said:
Send her away, for she crieth after us.
24
But he answered and said to them: I am not
sent, except to the sheep that have strayed from
the house of Israel.
25
And she came, and worshipped him, and
said: Help me, my Lord.
26
Jesus said to her: It is not proper, to take the
bread of the children and throw it to the dogs.
27
And she said: Even so, my Lord; yet the dogs
eat of the fragments that fall from the tables of
their masters, and live.
Then Jesus said to her: O woman, great is
thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her
daughter was cured from that hour.
29
And Jesus departed from there, and came to
the side of the sea of Galilee: and he ascended
a mountain, and sat there.
30
And great multitudes came to him; and with
them were the lame, and the blind, and the
dumb, and the maimed, and many others: and
they laid them at the feet of Jesus, and he
healed them.
31
So that the multitudes were amazed, when
they saw the dumb speaking, and the maimed
made whole, and the lame walking, and the
blind seeing: and they praised the God of Israel.
32
Then Jesus called his disciples, and said to
them: I pity this multitude; for lo, these three
days they have continued with me, and they
have nothing to eat: and I am unwilling to send
them away fasting, lest they faint by the way.
33
His disciples say to him: Whence can we get
bread in the wilderness, to satisfy all this
multitude?
34
Jesus said to them, How many loaves have
ye? They said to him, Seven, and a few little
fishes.
35
And he commanded the multitudes to recline
on the ground.
36
And he took the seven loaves and the fishes,
and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his
disciples; and the disciples gave to the
multitudes.
37
And they all ate, and were satisfied. And they
took up the remains of fragments, seven full
baskets.
38
And they that had eaten were four thousand
men, besides women and children.
39
And when he had sent away the multitudes,
he took ship, and came to the coasts of
Magdala.
16:1 And Pharisees and Sadducees came near,
tempting him, and asking him to show them a
sign from heaven.
2
But he answered, and said to them: When it is
evening ye say, It will be fair weather; for the
heavens are red.
3
And in the morning ye say, There will be a
storm to-day; for the heavens are sadly red. Ye
hypocrites, ye are intelligent to discover the
aspect of the heavens, but the signs of this time
ye have no skill to discern.
4
A wicked and adulterous generation asketh for
a sign; but no sign shall be given it, but the sign
of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and
departed.
5 23
And when his disciples had come to the
farther shore, they had forgotten to take bread
with them.
6
And he said to them: Take heed, and beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees.
7
And they reasoned among themselves, and
said, [it was] because they had taken no bread.
8
But Jesus knew [it] and said to them: O ye
small in faith! why reason ye among yourselves
because ye have taken no bread?
9
Have ye not yet understood? Do ye not
remember the five loaves and the five thousand,
and the many baskets ye took up?
10
Nor the seven loaves and the four thousand,
and the many baskets ye took up?
11
How is it that ye do not understand that it was
not concerning bread that I spoke to you; but
that ye should beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12
Then understood they, that he did not bid
them beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
13
And when Jesus came into the region of
Caesarea Philippi, he questioned his disciples,
and said: What do men say concerning me, that
I the Son of man, am?
14
And they said: Some say that [thou art] John
the Baptizer; but others, Elijah; and others,
Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
15
He said to them: But, who do ye yourselves
say that I am?
16
Simon Cephas answered and said: Thou art
the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
17
Jesus answered, and said to him: Blessed art
thou, Simon son of Jonas; for flesh and blood
have not revealed [it] to thee, but my Father who
is in heaven.
18
Also I say to thee, that thou art Cephas: and
upon this rock, I will build my church: and the
gates of death shall not triumph over it.
19
To thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of
heaven: and whatever thou shalt bind on earth,
shall be bound in heaven: and whatever thou
shalt unbind on earth, shall be unbound in
heaven.
20
Then he enjoined on his disciples, that they
should tell no man that he was the Messiah.
21
And from that time Jesus began to show to
his disciples, that he was to go up to Jerusalem,
and to suffer much from the Elders, and from the
chief priests and Scribes, and be killed, and on
the third day arise.
22
And Cephas took him, and began to rebuke
him; and he said: Far be it from thee, my Lord,
that this should be to thee.
But he turned, and said to Cephas: Get thee
behind me, Satan: Thou art a stumbling block to
me; for thou thinkest not the things of God, but
the things of men.
24
Then said Jesus to his disciples: If any one
desireth to come after me, let him deny himself;
and let him bear his cross, and come after me.
25
For, whoever chooseth to preserve his life,
shall lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my
sake, shall find it.
26
For what will it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and shall lose his soul? Or
what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
27
For the Son of man is to come in the glory of
his Father, with all his holy angels; and then will
he recompense to every man as his deeds are.
28
Verily I say to you: There are some persons
standing here, who shall not taste death, till they
see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
17:1 And after six days Jesus took Cephas, and
James, and John his brother, and conducted
them alone to a high mountain.
2
And Jesus was changed before them: and his
face shone like the sun; and his vestments
became white like the light.
3
And there appeared to them Moses and Elijah,
in conversation with him.
4
Then Cephas answered and said to Jesus: My
Lord, it is good for us to be here: and, if it please
thee, we will make here three booths; one for
thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
5 23
And while he was yet speaking, lo, a bright
cloud overshadowed them: and there was a
voice from the cloud which said: This is my
beloved Son, in whom I have pleasure; hear ye
him.
6
And when the disciples heard [it], they fell on
their faces, and were much afraid.
7
And Jesus came to them and touched them,
and said: Arise, and be not afraid.
8
And they raised their eyes, and they saw no
person, except Jesus only.
9
And as they came down from the mountain,
Jesus charged them, and said to them: Speak of
this vision before no person, until the Son of
man shall have arisen from the dead.
10
And his disciples asked him, and said to him:
Why then do the Scribes say, that Elijah must
first come?
11
Jesus answered, and said to them: Elijah
doth first come, to fulfill every thing.
12
And I say to you. That, behold, Elijah hath
come, and they did not know him; and they have
done to him whatever they pleased: and, in like
manner, also the Son of man is to suffer from
them.
13
Then the disciples understood, that he spake
to them of John the Baptizer.
14
And when they came to the multitude, a man
approached him, and bowed himself on his
knees,
15
and said to him: My Lord, compassionate me.
I have a son who is a lunatic, and grievously
afflicted; for often he falleth into the fire, and
often into the water.
16
And I brought him to thy disciples, and they
could not heal him.
17
Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and
perverse generation! How long shall I be with
you? and how long bear with you? Bring him
here to me.
18
And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it
departed from him: and from that hour the child
was healed.
19
Then came the disciples to Jesus, apart, and
said to him: Why could not we heal him?
20
Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief.
For verily I say to you, That if there be in you
faith like a grain of mustard seed, ye may say to
this mountain, Remove hence, and it will
remove: and nothing will be too hard for you.
21
But this kind goeth not out, except by fasting
and prayer.
22
And while they were resident in Galilee,
Jesus said to them: The Son of man is to be
betrayed into the hands of men;
and they will kill him; and the third day he will
arise. And it saddened them much.
24
And when they came to Capernaum, those
who receive the two drachmas of capitation
money came to Cephas, and said to him: Doth
not your rabbi pay his two drachmas?
25
He said to them, Yes. And when Cephas had
entered the house, Jesus anticipated him and
said to him: How doth it appear to thee, Simon?
The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive
tribute and capitation money? of their children,
or of aliens?
26
Simon said to him: Of aliens. Jesus said to
him: Then the children are free.
27
But still, lest they be stumbled with us, go
thou to the sea and cast in a fish-hook, and the
fish that shall first come up, open its mouth, and
thou wilt find a stater: that take, and give for me
and for thyself.
18:1 In that hour the disciples approached
Jesus, and said: Who is the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven?
2
And Jesus called a child, and placed him in
the midst of them,
3
and said: Verily I say to you, that unless ye be
converted, and become like children, ye will not
enter the kingdom of heaven.
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He therefore that shall humble himself like this
child, he will be great in the kingdom of heaven.
5 21
And he that shall receive in my name [one
who is] like to this child, he receiveth me.
6
And whosoever shall stumble one of these
little ones that believe in me, it were better for
him that a millstone were suspended to his neck,
and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.
7 23
Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks!
For it must be, that stumbling blocks come. But,
woe to the person by whose means the
stumbling blocks come.
8
If then thy hand or thy foot make thee stumble,
cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is good for
thee to enter into life lame or mutilated, and not
that, with two hands or two feet, thou fall into
eternal fire.
9 26
And if thine eye make thee stumble, pluck it
out and cast it from thee: for it is good for thee to
enter into life with one eye, and not that, with
two eyes, thou fall into the hell of fire.
10
See that ye despise not one of these little
ones; for I say to you, That their angels in
heaven, at all times, are beholding the face of
my Father who is in heaven.
11
For the Son of man, hath come to give life to
that which was lost.
12
How doth it appear to you? If a man should
have a hundred sheep, and one of them should
go astray, will he not leave the ninety and nine in
the mountains, and go and seek the one that
strayed?
13
And if he find it, verily I say to you, that he
rejoiceth in it, more than in the ninety and nine
that did not stray.
14
Just so, it is not the pleasure of your Father
who is in heaven, that one of these little ones
should perish.
15
Moreover, if thy brother commit an offence
against thee, go and admonish him between
thee and him only. If he hear thee, thou hast
gained thy brother.
16
But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or
two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.
17
And if he will also not hear them, tell [it] to the
church. And if he will also not hear the church,
let him be to thee as a publican and a heathen.
18
Verily I say to you, That whatever ye shall
bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and
whatever ye shall unbind on earth, shall be
unbound in heaven.
19
Again I say to you, That if two of you shall
agree on earth concerning any thing that they
shall ask, it shall be to them from my Father who
is in heaven.
For where two or three [are] assembled in my
name, there [am] I in the midst of them.
Then Cephas approached him, and said to
him: My Lord, how many times, if my brother
commit offence against me, shall I forgive him?
up to seven times?
22
Jesus said to him: I do not say to thee, up to
seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like to
some king, who wished to have a reckoning with
his servants.
24
And when he began to reckon, they brought
to him one debtor of ten thousand talents.
25
And as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord
commanded him to be sold, him and his wife
and his children, and all that he possessed, and
payment to be made.
And that servant fell down and worshipped
him, and said: My lord, have patience with me,
and I will pay thee the whole.
27
And his lord had compassion on that servant,
and set him free, and forgave him his debt.
28
Then that servant went out, and found one of
his fellowservants who owed him a hundred
denarii. And he laid hold of him and choked him,
and said to him: Pay me what thou owest me.
29
And that fellow-servant fell at his feet and
entreated him, and said: Have patience with me,
and I will pay thee the whole.
30
But he would not, but went and cast him into
prison, until he should pay him what he owed
him.
31
And when their fellow-servants saw what was
done, it grieved them much; and they came and
made known to their lord all that had occurred.
32
Then his lord called him, and said to him:
Thou vile servant! Lo, I forgave thee that whole
debt, because thou entreatedst of me:
33
oughtest not thou also to have compassion
on thy fellow-servant, as I had compassion on
thee?
34
And his lord was angry, and delivered him
over to the torturers, until he should pay all he
owed him.
35
So will my Father who is in heaven do to you,
unless ye from your heart forgive each his
brother his offence.
19:1 And when Jesus had ended these
discourses, he removed from Galilee, and came
to the confines of Judaea on the other side of
Jordan.
2
And great multitudes followed after him, and
he healed them there.
3 20
And Pharisees came to him, and tempted him
and said: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife
for every cause?
4
And he answered and said to them: Have ye
not read, that he who made [them] at the
beginning, made them a male and a female?
5 22
And he said: For this reason, a man shall
leave his father and his mother, and adhere to
his wife; and they two shall be one flesh.
6 23
Wherefore they were not two, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath united, let not man
sunder.
7 24
They say to him: Why then did Moses
command to give a bill of divorce, and to put her
away?
8 25
He said to them: Moses, on account of the
hardness of your heart, permitted you to divorce
your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 26
And I say to you, That whoever leaveth his
wife not being an adulteress, and taketh
another, committeth adultery. And whoever
taketh her that is divorced, committeth adultery.
10
His disciples say to him: If such is the case
between man and wife, it is not expedient to
take a wife.
11
But he said to them: Not every one is capable
of that thing, but he only to whom it is given.
12
For there are some eunuchs, born so from
their mother's womb; and there are some
eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men; and
there are some eunuchs who have made
themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom
of heaven. He that can be contented let him be
contented.
13
Then they brought children to him, that he
might lay his hand upon them and pray. And his
disciples rebuked them.
14
But Jesus said to them: Allow children to
come to me, and forbid them not; for of those
that are like them is the kingdom of heaven.
15
And he laid his hand upon them, and
departed from there.
16
And one came, drew near, and said to him:
Good Teacher, what good thing must I do, that
eternal life may be mine?
17
And he said to him: Why callest thou me
good? There is none good, except one,
[namely,] God. But if thou wouldst enter into life,
keep the commandments.
18
He said to him, Which? And Jesus said to
him: Thou shalt not kill; and thou shalt not
commit adultery; and thou shalt not steal; and
thou shalt not bear false testimony;
19
and honor thy father and thy mother; and
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
The young man saith to him: All these have I
kept from my childhood. What do I lack?
21
Jesus saith to him: If thou desirest to be
perfect, go, sell thy property, and give to the
poor; and there shall be for thee a treasure in
heaven; and come thou after me.
And the young man heard that speech, and
he went away in sadness; for he had much
property.
And Jesus said to his disciples: Verily I say to
you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of heaven.
And again, I say to you: It is easier for a
camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of God
And when the disciples heard [it], they
wondered greatly, and said: Who then can attain
to life!
Jesus looked on them, and said to them: With
men this is not practicable, but with God every
thing is practicable.
27
Then answered Cephas, and said to him: Lo,
we have forsaken every thing, and come after
thee: What therefore shall we receive?
28
Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, that,
as for you who have followed me, when the Son
of man shall sit on the throne of his glory in the
new world, ye also shall sit on twelve seats, and
shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
29
And every man that relinquisheth houses, or
brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or wife or
children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall
receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal
life.
30
But there are many first who shall be last, and
last [who shall be] first.
20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a man,
the lord of a house, who went out, at dawn of
day, to hire laborers for his vineyard.
2
And he contracted with the labors for a
denarius a day: and sent them into his vineyard.
3
And he went out at the third hour, and saw
others standing idle in the market-place:
4
and he said to them, Go ye also into my
vineyard, and what is right I will give you;
5
and they went. And again he went out at the
sixth and ninth hours, and did the same.
6
And about the eleventh hour, he went out and
found others who were standing and idle; and he
said to them: Why stand ye all the day, and are
idle?
7
They say to him, Because no one hath hired
us. He saith to them: Go ye also into the
vineyard; and what is right ye shall receive.
8 25
And when it was evening, the lord of the
vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers,
and give them their wages; and commence with
the last, and proceed to the first.
9 26
And those of the eleventh hour came, and
received each a denarius.
10
And when the first came, they supposed they
should receive more; but they also received
each a denarius.
11
And when they received [it], they murmured
against the lord of the house,
12
and said: These last have labored but one
hour, and thou hast made them equal with us
who have borne the burden of the day and the
heat of it.
13
But he answered, and said to one of them:
My friend, I do thee no injustice: was it not for a
denarius that thou didst contract with me?
14
Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I am
disposed to give to this last, as to thee.
15
Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with
what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil,
because I am good?
16
Thus the last shall be first, and the first last:
for the called are many, but the chosen are few.
17
And Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem:
and he took his twelve disciples aside, on the
way, and said to them:
18
Behold we are going to Jerusalem; and the
Son of man will be delivered up to the chief
priests and to the Scribes, and they will
condemn him to death.
19
And they will deliver him over to the Gentiles:
and they will mock him, and will scourge him,
and will crucify him; and the third day, he will
arise.
20
Then came, to him the mother of Zebedee's
children, she and her sons; and she worshipped
him, and asked something from him.
21
And he said to her, What desirest thou? She
said to him: Say, that these my two sons shall
sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on
thy left, in thy kingdom.
22
Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what
ye ask for. Can ye drink of the cup, of which I
am to drink? or be baptized with the baptism,
that I am baptized with? They say to him: We
can.
23
He saith to them: Ye will [indeed] drink of my
cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I
am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my
right hand and on my left, is not mine to give,
except to those for whom it is prepared by my
Father.
24
And when the ten heard [it], they were angry
against the two brothers.
And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye
know that the princes of the nations are their
lords, and their great men exercise authority
over them.
Not so shall it be among you. But whoever
among you desireth to be great, let him be to
you, a ministerer:
27
and whoever among you desireth to be first,
let him be your servant:
28
even as the Son of man came, not to be
served, but to serve; and to give his life a
ransom for many.
29
And as Jesus passed out of Jericho, a great
multitude followed him.
30
And lo, two blind men were sitting by the way
side. And when they heard that Jesus was
passing, they called out, and said: Have
compassion on us, my Lord, thou son of David!
31
And the multitudes rebuked them, that they
might be silent. But they raised their voice the
more, and said: Our Lord, have compassion on
us, thou son of David.
32
And Jesus stopped, and called them, and
said: What wish ye, that I should do for you?
33
They said to him: Our Lord, that our eyes
may be opened.
34
And he had compassion on them, and
touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes
were opened, and they followed him.
21:1 And as he approached Jerusalem, and
came to Bethphage, by the side of the mount of
Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples;
2
and said to them: Go into this village which is
over against you, and directly ye will find an ass
tied, and a colt with her. Untie and bring [them]
to me.
3
And if any man say ought to you, tell him, That
they are needed by our Lord: and at once he will
send them hither.
4 2
Now this whole occurrence was, that so might
be fulfilled that which was spoken by the
prophet, saying:
5
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy king
cometh to thee, meek, and riding on an ass, and
on a colt the foal of an ass.
6
And the disciples went, and did as Jesus
commanded them.
7
And they brought the ass and the colt. And
they placed their garments on the colt, and set
Jesus upon it.
2
Matthew 21:4 – Most Western Peshitto mss omit
“whole.” However,it is present in most Eastern
Peshitta mss.
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And a very great throng strewed their clothes
in the path; and others cut branches from the
trees, and cast them in the path.
9
And the multitudes that went before him, and
that followed after him, shouted and said:
Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the LORD: Hosanna in the
highest.
10
And as he entered Jerusalem, the whole city
was in commotion; and they said, Who is this?
11
And the multitudes said, This is Jesus the
prophet, who is from Nazareth of Galilee.
12
And Jesus entered into the temple of God,
and expelled all them that bought and sold in the
temple, and overset the counters of the money-
brokers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
13
And he said to them: It is written, my house
shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have
made it a den of robbers.
14
And there came to him in the temple the blind
and the lame; and he healed them.
15
And when the chief priests and Pharisees
saw the wonderful things which he performed,
and the children shouting in the temple and
saying, Hosanna to the son of David, their
indignation was excited.
16
And they said to him: Hearest thou what
these are saying? Jesus said to them: Yes.
Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of
children and infants thou hast acquired praise?
17
And he left them, and retired out of the city to
Bethany, and lodged there.
18
And in the morning, when he returned to the
city, he was hungry.
19
And he saw a fig-tree by the way, and came
to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only.
And he said to it: There shall no more be fruit on
thee for ever. And immediately the fig-tree
withered.
20
And the disciples saw [it], and admired, and
said: How suddenly hath the fig-tree withered!
21
Jesus replied and said to them: Verily I say to
you, That if there be faith in you, and ye shall not
doubt, ye may not only do this thing of the fig-
tree, but also if ye shall say to this mountain, be
thou lifted up, and fall into the sea, it will be so.
22
And whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, and
shall believe, ye shall receive.
23
And when Jesus came to the temple, the
chief priests and the Elders of the people came
to him as he was teaching, and said to him: By
what authority doest thou these things? And who
gave thee this authority?
24
Jesus replied and said to them: I also will ask
you one question, and if ye will tell me, I also will
tell you by what authority I do these things.
The baptism of John, from whence was it?
From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned
among themselves, and said: If we should say,
From heaven; he will say to us, Why did ye not
believe in him?
26
And if we should say, From men; we are
afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a
prophet.
27
And they answered, and said to him: We do
not know. Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell
you by what authority I do these things.
28
But how appeareth it to you? A certain man
had two sons; and he came to the first and said
to him, My son, go, labor to-day in the vineyard.
29
And he answered and said, I am not willing.
But afterwards he repented and went.
30
And he came to the other, and said the same
to him. And he answered and said: I [go], my
lord, but did not go.
31
Which of these two performed the pleasure of
his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said
to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and
harlots go before you into the kingdom of God.
32
For John came to you in the way of
righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the
publicans and harlots believed him: and ye, after
ye had seen [it], did not even then repent and
believe in him.
33
Hear ye another similitude. A certain man, the
lord of a house, planted a vineyard, and inclosed
it with a hedge, and digged in it a wine-press,
and built a tower in it, and leased it to cultivators,
and removed to a distance.
34
And when the time for the fruits arrived, he
sent his servants to the cultivators that they
might remit to him of the fruits of the vineyard.
35
And the cultivators laid hold of his servants,
and beat one, and stoned another and one they
slew.
36
And again he sent other servants, more
numerous than the first; and they did the like to
them.
37
And at last he sent to them his son: for he
said, Perhaps they will respect my son.
38
But the cultivators, when they saw the son,
said among themselves: This is the heir: Come;
let us kill him, and retain his inheritance.
39
And they laid hold of him, thrust him out of
the vineyard, and slew him.
40
When the lord of the vineyard, therefore, shall
come; what will he do to those cultivators?
41
They say to him: He will utterly destroy them;
and will lease the vineyard to other cultivators,
who will render him the fruits in their seasons.
42
Jesus said to them: Have ye never read in
the scripture, The stone which the builders

rejected, hath become the head of the corner:
this is from the Lord; and it is marvellous in our
eyes?
43
Therefore I say to you, That the kingdom of
God shall be taken from you, and shall be given
to a people that will yield fruits.
44
And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be
fractured; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will
crush him to atoms?
45
And when the chief priests and Pharisees
had heard his similitudes, they understood that
he spoke in reference to them.
46
And they sought to apprehend him, but were
afraid of the multitude, because they accounted
him as a prophet.
22:1 And Jesus answered again by similitudes,
and said:
2
The kingdom of heaven is like to a royal
person, who made a feast for his son.
3
And he sent his servants to call those that had
been invited, to the feast: and they would not
come.
4
And again he sent other servants, and said:
Tell those invited, Behold, my entertainment is
prepared, my oxen and my fatlings are slain,
and every thing is prepared; come ye to the
feast.
5 25
But they showed contempt, and went away,
one to his farm, and another to his merchandise;
6
and the rest seized his servants, and abused
them, and slew them.
7
And when the king heard [of it], he was angry;
and he sent his military forces, and destroyed
those murderers, and burned their city.
8 28
Then said he to his servants, The feast is
prepared, but they who were invited were
unworthy.
9 29
Go ye therefore to the terminations of the
streets; and as many as ye find, bid to the feast.
10
And those servants went out into the streets,
and collected all they found, both bad and good;
and the place of feasting was filled with guests.
11
And the king went in to see the guests: and
he saw there a man who was not clad in the
festal garments.
12
And he said to him: My friend, how camest
thou here without the festal robes? But he was
silent.
13
Then said the king to the servitors: Bind his
hands and his feet, and cast him into the outer
darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
14
For the called are many, and the chosen are
few.
15
Then went the Pharisees and took counsel,
how they might ensnare him in discourse.
16
And they sent to him their disciples, with
domestics of Herod, and said to him: Teacher,
we know that thou art veracious, and teachest
the way of God with truth, regardless of man, for
thou hast no respect of persons.
17
Tell us, therefore, how doth it appear to thee:
is it lawful to pay capitation money to Caesar, or
not?
18
But Jesus knew their wickedness, and said:
Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19
Show me a denarius of the capitation money.
And they brought to him a denarius.
20
And Jesus said to them: Whose is this image
and inscription?
21
They say, Caesar's. He saith to them: Give
then Caesar's things to Caesar, and God's
things to God.
22
And when they heard [it] they were surprised:
and they left him, and went away.
23
The same day came Sadducees, and said to
him: There is no life of the dead. And they
questioned him,
24
and said to him: Teacher; Moses commanded
us, that if a man should die childless, his brother
must take his wife and raise up seed to his
brother.
Now there were with us seven brothers. The
first took a wife, and deceased; and, as he had
no children, he left his wife to his brother.
26
In like manner also the second, and the third,
and up to the whole seven.
27
And after them all, the woman also herself
died.
In the resurrection, therefore, to which of
those seven will she be the wife? For they all
had taken her?
Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye do err,
from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power
of God.
30
For in the resurrection of the dead, they do
not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands;
but they are as the angels of God in heaven.
31
But as to the resurrection of the dead,: have
ye not read what was spoken to you by God,
who said:
32
I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
the God of Jacob? Now he is not the God of the
dead, but of the living.
33
And when the multitude heard [it] they were
astonished at his doctrine.
34
And when the Pharisees heard that he had
put the Sadducees to silence, they assembled
together;
35
and one of them, who was expert in the law,
to tempt him, inquired:
36
Teacher, which is the great command in the
law?
37
Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the LORD
thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might, and with all thy mind.
38
This is the great and first command.
39
And the second, which is like it, is, Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself.
40
On these two commands hang the law and
the prophets.
41
And while the Pharisees were assembled,
Jesus questioned them,
42
and said: What say ye respecting, the
Messiah? Whose son is he? They say to him;
The son of David.
43
He saith to them: How then doth David, by
the Spirit, call him LORD? for he said:
44
The LORD said to my Lord, Seat thyself at my
right hand, until I place thy enemies under thy
feet.
45
If David then call him LORD, how is he his
son?
46
And no one was able to give him an answer?
And from that day, no one dared to question
him.
23:1 Then Jesus conversed with the multitude
and with his disciples,
2 23
and said to them: The Scribes and Pharisees
sit in the seat of Moses.
3
Whatever therefore they tell you to observe,
that observe and do. But according to their
deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not.
4 24
They tie up heavy burdens, and lay [them] on
men's shoulders; but will not themselves touch
them with their finger.
5
And all their works they do, to be seen of men:
for they make their phylacteries broad, and
extend the fringes of their garments.
6 26
And they love the highest couches at suppers
and the highest seats in the synagogues,
7
and the greeting in the market places, and to
be addressed by men with Rabbi.
8
But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your
Rabbi, and ye are all brethren.
9
And ye shall not call yourselves Father on
earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.
10
And be ye not called guides; for one is your
Guide, the Messiah.
11
And the great one among you will be your
servitor.
12
For whoever shall] exalt himself, will be
abased: and whoever shall abase himself, will
be exalted.
13
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows,
under the disguise of protracting your prayers.
Therefore ye shall receive greater
condemnation.
14
Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven
closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves,
and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter.
15
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make
one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make
him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves.
16
Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say,
Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing;
but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the
temple, he is holden.
17
Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the
gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18
And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is
nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation
upon it, he is holden.
19
Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the
oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?
20
He therefore who sweareth by the altar,
sweareth by it, and by all that is upon it.
21
And he who sweareth by the temple,
sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.
22
And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth
by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it.
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and
cummin, and omit the graver [matters] of the
law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these
ought ye to do, and those not to omit.
Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and
swallow down camels.
25
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup
and the dish, while within they are full of rapine
and wickedness.
Ye blind Pharisees, cleanse first the inside of
the cup and dish, that their outside may be clean
also.
27
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres,
which appear comely without, but are within full
of bones of the dead and all impurity.
28
So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as
righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and
hypocrisy.
29
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the
prophets and ye adorn the sepulchres of the
righteous;
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and ye say: If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been participators
with them in the blood of the prophets.
31
Wherefore ye are witnesses, against
yourselves, that ye are the children of them that
killed the prophets.
32
And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your
fathers.
33
Ye serpents, ye race of vipers: how can ye
escape the condemnation of hell?
34
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets,
and wise men, and scribes; some of whom ye
will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will
scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute
them from city to city:
35
so that on you may come all the blood of the
righteous, which hath been shed on the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood
of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew
between the temple and the altar.
36
Verily I say to you, that all these things will
come upon this generation.
37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the
prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee:
how often would I have gathered thy children, as
a hen gathereth her young under her wings, and
ye would not.
38
Behold, your house is left to you desolate!
39
For I say to you, That ye shall not see me
henceforth, until ye shall say: Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the LORD.
24:1 And Jesus passed out of the temple to go
away: and his disciples came to him, showing
him the structure of the temple.
2
And he said to them: See ye not all these?
Verily I say to you, There will not be left here a
stone upon a stone, that is not demolished.
3
And as Jesus sat on the mount of Olives, his
disciples came, and said between themselves
and him: Tell us when these things are to be;
and what will be the sign of thy coming, and of
the consummation of the world.
4 25
Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed,
that no one deceive you.
5
For many will come in my name, and will say, I
am the Messiah: and they will deceive many.
6 27
And ye are to hear of conflicts, and the rumor
of battles. See that ye be not disquieted: for all
these things must come; but the consummation
is not yet.
7
For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom; and there will be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in
divers places.
8
But all these are only the commencement of
sorrows.
9
And they will deliver you up to tribulation, and
will kill you: and ye will be hated by all nations,
on account of my name.
10
Then many will be stumbled: and they will
hate one another, and will betray one another.
11
And many false prophets will rise up; and
they will deceive many.
12
And on account of the abounding of iniquity,
the love of many will decline.
13
But he that shall persevere to the end, will
have life.
14
And this announcement of the kingdom shall
be published in all the world, for a testimony to
all nations: and then will come the
consummation.
15
And when ye see the abominable sign of
desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, standing in the holy place; then let the
reader consider;
16
and then let them who are in Judaea, flee to
the mountain:
17
and let him who is on the roof, not come
down to take what is in his house:
18
and let him who is in the field, not return back
to take his clothing.
19
But woe to those with child, and to them that
are nursing, in those days.
20
And pray ye, that your flight be not in winter,
or on the sabbath.
21
For there will then be great distress, such as
hath not been from the commencement of the
world, until now, and will not be.
22
And unless those days should be cut short,
no flesh would remain alive. But, for the elect's
sake, those days will be cut short.
23
Then, if any one shall say to you, Lo, the
Messiah is here, or is there; give no credence.
24
For there will arise false Messiahs, and
mendacious prophets; who will exhibit great
signs, so as to deceive, if possible, even the
elect.
Behold, I have told you beforehand.
26
If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in
the desert; go not out: or, Behold, he is in a
secret chamber; give no credence.
As the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shineth unto the west, so will be the coming of
the Son of man.
28
And wherever the carcass may be, there will
the eagles be congregated.
29
And immediately after the distress of those
days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon
will not show her light, and the stars will fall from

heaven, and the powers of heaven will be
agitated.
30
And then will be seen the signal of the Son of
man in heaven: and then will all the tribes of the
earth mourn, when they see the Son of man
coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and
great glory.
31
And he will send his angels with a great
trumpet and they will collect together his elect
from the four winds, from one extremity of
heaven to the other.
32
And learn ye an illustration from the fig-tree.
As soon as its branches become tender and its
leaves shoot forth, ye know that summer is
coming on.
33
So also ye, when ye perceive all these things,
know ye, that he is nigh, [even] at the door.
34
Verily I say to you, That this generation shall
not pass away, till all these things shall be.
35
Heaven and earth will pass away; but my
words shall not pass away.
36
But of that day and of that hour, knoweth no
man, nor even the angels of heaven, but the
Father only.
37
And as the days of Noah, so will the coming
of the Son of man be.
38
For as, before the flood, they were eating and
drinking, taking wives and giving to husbands,
up to the day that Noah entered the ark,
39
and knew not, until the flood came and took
them all away; so will the coming of the Son of
man be.
40
Then will two [men] be in the field; the one
will be taken, and the other left.
41
Two [women] will be grinding at the mill; the
one taken, and the other left.
42
Watch, therefore, since ye know not at what
hour your Lord cometh.
43
But know this, that if the lord of the house had
known in what watch the thief would come, he
would have been awake, and would not have
suffered his house to be broken into.
44
Therefore, be ye also ready; for at an hour ye
do not expect, the Son of man will come.
45
Who then, is that faithful and wise servant,
whom his lord hath placed over his domestics, to
give them their food in its time?
46
Happy is that servant, whom, when his lord
shall come, he will find so doing.
47
Verily I say to you, He will place him over all
that he hath.
48
But if that servant, being wicked, shall say in
his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49
and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants,
and shall be eating and drinking with drunkards;
50
the lord of that servant will come in a day he
will not expect, and in an hour he knoweth not,
51
and will cut him asunder, and will assign him
his portion with the hypocrites; there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
25:1 Then may the kingdom of heaven be
shadowed forth by ten virgins, who took their
lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and
bride.
2
And five of them were wise, and five were
foolish.
3
And the foolish took their lamps, but took no
oil with them.
4
But the wise took oil in vessels, with their
lamps.
5
And while the bridegroom delayed, they all
became sleepy and fell asleep.
6
And at midnight there was an outcry: Behold,
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps.
8
And the foolish said to the wise; Give us of
your oil; for, behold, our lamps have gone out.
9
The wise answered and said: [We must
refuse,] lest there should not be enough for us
and for you: but go ye to them that sell, and buy
for yourselves.
10
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom
came; and they that were ready, went with him
into the house of the nuptials, and the door was
shut.
11
And at length came also the other virgins,
and said: Our lord, our lord, open to us.
12
But he answered, and said to them: Verily I
say to you, I know you not.
13
Watch, therefore, seeing ye know not the day
nor the hour.
14
For, as a man that took a journey, called his
servants and delivered to them his property;
15
to one he gave five talents; to another, two;
and to another, one: to each, according to his
ability: and he immediately departed.
16
Then he that received five talents, went and
traded with them, and gained five more.
17
And likewise: the one of two [talents], by
trading gained two more.
18
But he that received one, went and digged in
the earth, and hid his lord's money.
19
And after a long time, the lord of those
servants came, and received account from
them.
20
And he who had received the five talents,
came and brought five others; and said, My lord,
thou gavest me five talents; behold, I have
gained by trading five more to them.
21
His lord said to him: Well done! good and
faithful servant: thou hast been faithful with a
little; I will set thee over much: enter thou into
the joy of thy lord.
22
And he of the two talents came, and said: My
lord, thou gavest me two talents; behold, I have
by trading gained two more to them.
23
His lord said to him: Well done! Good and
faithful servant: thou hast been faithful with a
little; I will set thee over much: enter thou into
the joy of thy lord.
24
And he also that received the one talent,
came and said: My lord, I knew thee, that thou
art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not
sowed, and gathering where thou hast not
scattered;
25
and I was afraid, and I went and hid thy talent
in the earth. Behold, thou hast what is thine.
26
His lord answered, and said to him: Wicked
and slothful servant! Thou knewest me, that I
reap where I have not sowed, and gather where
I have not scattered!
27
Thou oughtest to have cast my money into
the exchange; and I might have come and
demanded my property with its interest.
28
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it
to him that hath ten talents.
29
For, to him that hath, shall be given, and he
shall have more; but from him that hath not,
even what he hath shall be taken away.
30
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the
outer darkness: there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.
31
And when the Son of man shall come in his
glory, and all his holy angels with him, then will
he sit upon the throne of his glory.
32
And before him will be gathered all nations;
and he will separate them one from another, as
a shepherd severeth the sheep from the goats.
33
And he will place the sheep on his right hand,
and the goats on his left.
34
Then will the king say to those on his right
hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father; inherit
the kingdom that was prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.
35
For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was
thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger,
and ye took me home;
36
I was naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick,
and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came
to me.
37
Then will the righteous say to him: Our Lord,
when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or
thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38
And when saw we thee a stranger, and took
thee home? or naked, and clothed thee?
39
And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came to thee?
40
And the king will answer, and say to them:
Verily I say to you, That inasmuch as ye did so
to one of these my little brothers, ye did so to
me.
41
Then will he say also to them on his left hand:
Go from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire,
which was prepared for the Calumniator and his
angels,
42
For I was hungry, and ye gave me no food;
and I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;
43
and I was a stranger, and ye took me not
home; and I was naked, and ye clothed me not;
and I was sick and in prison, and ye did not visit
me.
44
Then will they also answer and say: Our Lord,
when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a
stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister to thee?
45
Then will he answer, and say to them: Verily I
say to you, That in as much as ye did not so to
one of these little ones, ye did not so to me.
46
And these will go into everlasting torment,
and the righteous into everlasting life.
26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had
concluded all these discourses, that he said to
his disciples:
2
Ye know that after two days is the Passover;
and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3
Then assembled the chief priests and the
Scribes and the Elders of the people, at the hall
of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
4
And they held a counsel against Jesus, that
they might take him by guile, and kill him.
5
But they said: Not on the festival, lest there be
a commotion among the people.
6
And when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house
of Simon the leper,
7
there came to him a woman having a vase of
aromatic ointment very precious, and she
poured it on the head of Jesus as he was
reclining.
8
And when his disciples saw [it] they were
displeased, and said: Why is this waste?
9
For this [ointment] might have been sold for
much, and have been given to the poor.
10
But Jesus knew [their dissatisfaction], and
said to them: Why trouble ye the woman? She
hath performed a good deed towards me.
11
For the poor ye have at all times with you; but
I am not with you always
12
And this her act, pouring the ointment on my
body, she hath done as it were for my burial.
13
Verily I say to you, That wherever this my
gospel shall be proclaimed, in all the world, this
thing that she hath done shall be told for a
memorial of her.
14
Then one of the twelve, named Judas
Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
15
and said to them: What will ye give me, if I
will deliver him to you? And they promised him
thirty pieces of silver.
16
And from that time he sought opportunity to
betray him.
17
And on the first day of unleavened bread, the
disciples came to Jesus, and said to him: Where
wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the
passover?
18
And he said to them: Go ye into the city, to
such a man, and say to him: Our Rabbi saith,
My time approaches: with thee will I keep the
passover with my disciples
19
And his disciples did as Jesus directed them,
and made ready the passover.
20
And when it was evening, he reclined with his
twelve disciples.
21
And as they were eating, he said: Verily I say
to you, That one of you will betray me.
22
And it troubled them much. And they began
each one of them to say to him; My Lord is it I?
23
And he answered and said: One that dippeth
his hand with me in the dish, he will betray me.
24
And the Son of man goeth, as it is written of
him: but woe to that man, by whom the Son of
man is betrayed. It would have been better for
that man, if he had not been born.
25
Judas the betrayer answered and said:
Rabbi, is it I? Jesus said to him: Thou hast said.
26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread,
and blessed, and brake; and gave to his
disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.
27
And he took the cup, and offered thanks and
gave [it] to them, saying: Take, drink of this all of
you.
28
This is my blood of the new testament, which,
in behalf of many, is shed for the remission of
sins.
29
But I say to you, that I will henceforth not
drink of this product of the vine, until the day in
which I shall drink it with you new in the kingdom
of God.
30
And they sang praises, and went forth to the
mount of Olives.
31
Then said Jesus to them: Ye will all be
offended in me this night; for it is written, I will
smite the shepherd, and the sheep of his flock
will be dispersed.
32
But after I am arisen, I will go before you into
Galilee.
33
Cephas replied, and said to him: Though all
men should be offended in thee, I will never be
offended in thee.
34
Jesus said to him: Verily I say to thee, That
this night, before the cock crow, thou wilt thrice
deny me.
35
Cephas said to him: If I were to die with thee,
I would not deny thee: and so also said all the
disciples.
36
Then came Jesus with them to a place called
Gethsemane: and he said to his disciples, Sit ye
here, while I go and pray.
37
And he took Cephas and the two sons of
Zebedee, and began to be dejected and
sorrowful.
38
And he said to them: There is anguish in my
soul, even unto death. Wait for me here; and
watch with me.
39
And retiring a little, he fell on his face, and
prayed, and said: My Father, if it can be so, let
this cup pass from me. Yet not as I choose, but
as thou.
40
And he came to his disciples, and found them
asleep: and he said to Cephas: So! could ye not
watch with me one hour?
41
Wake ye, and pray, lest ye fall into
temptation. The mind is prepared, but the body
is infirm.
42
Again he went away the second time, and
prayed, and said: My Father, if it cannot be that
this cup pass, except I drink it, thy will be done.
43
And he came again and found them sleeping,
for their eyes were heavy.
44
And he left them, and went again and prayed
the third time, and used the same language.
45
Then he came to his disciples, and said to
them: Sleep on now, and take rest. Behold, the
hour is come: and the Son of man is betrayed
into the hands of sinners.
46
Arise, let us go. Behold, he that betrayeth me
hath come.
47
And while he was yet speaking, lo, Judas the
betrayer, one of the twelve, arrived; and a great
multitude with him, with swords and clubs, from
the presence of the chief priests and elders of
the people.
48
And Judas the betrayer had given them a
sign, saying: He it is, whom I shall kiss: him
seize ye.
49
And forthwith he approached Jesus, and said:
Hail, Rabbi; and kissed him.
50
And Jesus said to him: My friend, is it for this
thou hast come? Then they came up, and laid
their hands on Jesus, and took him.
51
And lo, one of them with Jesus stretched out
his hand, and drew a sword, and smote a
servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52
Then Jesus said to him: Return the sword to
its place; for all they that take swords, shall die
by swords.
53
Supposest thou that I cannot ask of my
Father, and he now assign me more than twelve
legions of angels?
54
But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled,
that thus it must be?
55
At that time Jesus said to the multitude: Have
ye come out, as against a cut-throat, with
swords and clubs, to take me? I daily sat with
you, and taught in the temple, and ye did not
apprehend me.
56
And this occurred, that the writings of the
prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all
forsook him and fled.
57
And they who apprehended Jesus carried
him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the
Scribes and Elders were assembled.
58
And Simon Cephas followed after him at a
distance, unto the high priest's hall, and entered,
and sat with the servants within, that he might
see the issue.
59
And the chief priests and the Elders and the
whole assembly sought for witnesses against
Jesus, that they might put him to death;
60
and found them not. And many false
witnesses came; and at last, two came forward,
61
and said: This man said, I can destroy the
temple of God, and in three days rebuild it.
62
And the high priest rose up and said to him:
Respondest thou nothing? What do these testify
against thee?
63
And Jesus was silent. And the high priest
answered, and said to him: I adjure thee by the
living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the
Messiah, the Son of God.
64
Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said. And I say
to you, That hereafter ye will see the Son of man
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming
on the clouds of heaven.
65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and
said: Behold, he hath blasphemed! Why
therefore should we seek for witnesses? Behold,
ye have now heard his blasphemy.
66
What is your pleasure? They answered and
said: He is liable to death.
67
Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him,
and others smote him,
68
and said to him: Prophesy to us, thou
Messiah, who is it smote thee?
69
And Cephas was sitting without in the hall,
and a certain maid approached him, and said to
him: Thou also wast with Jesus the Nazarean.
70
But he denied [it] before them all, and said: I
know not what thou sayest.
71
And as he went out into the porch, another
maid saw him, and said to them: This man was
also there with Jesus the Nazarean.
72
And again he denied, with oaths: I know not
that man.
73
And a little after, those standing [there] came
up and said to Cephas: Certainly, thou too art
one of them; and thy speech maketh thee
manifest.
74
Then he began to imprecate and to swear, I
know not that man. And in that hour the cock
crew.
75
And Cephas remembered the declaration of
Jesus, who said to him: Before the cock
croweth, thou wilt three times deny me. And he
went out, and wept bitterly.
27:1 And when it was morning, the chief priests
and the elders of the people held a council
against Jesus, how they might put him to death.
2
And they bound him, and carried him and
delivered him up to Pilate, the president.
3
Then Judas the betrayer, when he saw that
Jesus was condemned, repented. And he went
and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the
chief priests and elders;
4
and said: I have sinned, by betraying innocent
blood. And they said: What is that to us? See to
it thyself.
5
And he cast down the silver in the temple, and
retiring, went and strangled himself
6
And the chief priests took up the silver, and
said: It is not lawful to put it into the treasury,
because it is the price of blood.
7
And they took counsel, and bought with it the
potter's field, for a place to bury strangers.
8
Wherefore that field is called the field of blood,
unto this day.
9
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by
the prophet, saying: I took the thirty [shekels] of
silver, the price of the precious one, which they
of the children of Israel had stipulated;
10
and I gave them for the potter's field, as the
LORD directed me.
11
And Jesus stood before the president. And
the resident asked him, and said to him: Art thou
the king of the Jews? And Jesus said to him:
Thou hast said.
12
And when the chief priests and elders
accused him, he made no reply.
13
Then Pilate said to him: Hearest thou not how
much they testify against thee?
14
But he gave him no answer, not even one
word: and therefore Pilate wondered greatly.
15
And at each festival, the president was
accustomed to release to the people one
prisoner, such as they preferred.
16
And they had then in bonds a noted prisoner,
called Bar Abas.
17
And when they were assembled, Pilate said
to them: Whom will ye, that I release to you, Bar
Abas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?
18
For Pilate knew that it was from enmity they
had delivered him up.
19
And as the president was sitting on his
tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have
thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have
suffered much this day in a dream because of
him.
20
But the chief priests and the elders
persuaded the multitude that they should
demand Bar Abas, and destroy Jesus.
21
And the president answered, and said to
them: Which of the two, will ye, that I release to
you? And they said: Bar Abas.
22
Pilate said to them: And what shall I do to
Jesus who is called Messiah? They all replied:
Let him be crucified.
23
The president said to them: But what hath he
done, that is evil? And they cried out the more,
and said: Let him be crucified.
24
And Pilate, when he saw that it availed
nothing, but rather that tumult was produced,
took water, and washed his hands before the
eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from
the blood of this just man: see ye to it.
25
And all the people answered, and said His
blood be on us, and on our children!
26
Then released he to them Bar Abas; and
scourged Jesus with whips and delivered him to
be crucified.
27
Then the soldiers of the president took Jesus
into the Praetorium, and assembled the whole
regiment against him.
28
And they stripped him, and put on him a
scarlet military cloak.
29
And they wove a crown of thorns, and set it
on his head, and [put] a reed in his hand, and
they bowed their knees before him, and mocked
him, and said: Hail, thou king of the Jews.
30
And they spit in his face, and took the reed,
and smote him on his head.
31
And when they had mocked him, they
divested him of the cloak, and clothed him in his
own garments, and led him out to be crucified.
32
And as they went out, they found a man of
Cyrene whose name was Simon; him they
compelled to bear his cross.
33
And they came to a place which is called
Golgotha, which is interpreted a skull.
34
And they gave him to drink vinegar mixed
with gall. And he tasted [it], and would not drink.
35
And when they had crucified him, they
3
distributed his garments by lot.
36
And they sat down, and watched him there
37
And they placed over his head the cause of
his death, in the writing: THIS IS JESUS, THE
KING OF THE JEWS.
38
And there were crucified with him two
robbers, the one on his right hand, and the other
on his left.
39
And they that passed by reviled him, and
shook their heads
40
and said: Destroyer of the temple, and builder
of it in three days, deliver thyself, if thou art the
Son of God, and come down from the cross.
41
So also the chief priests mocked, with the
Scribes and Elders and Pharisees,
42
and said: He gave life to others, his own life
he cannot preserve. If he is the king of Israel, let
him now descend from the cross, and we will
4
believe in him.
43
He trusted in God; let him rescue him now, if
he hath pleasure in him: for he said, I am the
Son of God.
44
In like manner the marauders also, that were
crucified with him, reproached him.
45
And from the sixth hour there was darkness
over all the land, until the ninth hour.
46
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a
loud voice and said: O God, O God; why hast
5
thou forsaken me?
47
And some of them that stood there, when
they heard [it], said: He calleth for Elijah.
48
And immediately one of them ran, and took a
sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a
reed, and gave him to drink.
49
But the rest said: Desist; we will see if Elijah
will come to rescue him.
50
Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and
yielded up his spirit.
3
Matthew 27:35 - According to some of the Greek
copies, there is added, thus: “that so might be
fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet
David: They distributed my garments among them,
and upon my vesture they cast the lot.”
4
Matthew 27:42 - In some editions: “that we may
see, and believe in him.”
5
Matthew 27:46 – Il, Il, lemòno shebákthone?
51
And instantly, the curtain of the door of the
temple was torn asunder, from the top to the
bottom; and the earth shook; and the rocks
rived;
52
and graves were opened; and many bodies of
saints who slept, arose,
53
and came forth; and, after his resurrection,
entered into the holy city, and appeared to
many.
54
And the centurion, and they that were with
him guarding Jesus, when they saw the
earthquake and the things that occurred, feared
greatly, and said: Verily, this was the Son of
God.
55
And many women were there, looking on
from a distance; the same who had followed
Jesus from Galilee, and had ministered to him.
56
One of them was Mary of Magdala, also Mary
the mother of James and Joses, and the mother
of Zebedee's children.
57
And when it was evening, there came a rich
man of Ramath, whose name was a Joseph,
who was also a disciple of Jesus.
58
This man went to Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus. And Pilate directed the body to
be given him.
59
And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in
a winding-sheet of clean linen;
60
and laid it in his new sepulchre, that was
excavated in a rock. And he rolled a great stone
against the door of the sepulchre, and departed:
61
And there were present Mary of Magdala,
and the other Mary, who sat over against the
grave.
62
And on the day that was next after the
preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees
assembled before Pilate,
63
and said to him: Our Lord, we remember that
this deceiver said, while he was alive, After three
days, I shall arise
64
Command, therefore to guard the sepulchre;
until the third day; lest his disciples come and
steal him away by night, and say to the people
that he hath risen from the dead; and the last
delusion be worse than the first.
65
Pilate said to them: Ye have soldiers: go and
guard it, as ye know how.
66
And they went and set a guard to the
sepulchre, and sealed the stone.
28:1 And in the close of the sabbath, as the first
[day] of the week began to dawn, came Mary of
Magdala and the other Mary, to view the
sepulchre.
2
And lo, there was a great earthquake: for an
angel of the LORD descended from heaven, and
came and rolled away the stone from the door,
and sat upon it.
3
And his aspect was like the lightning; and his
raiment white like snow:
4
and from fear of him the keepers were
astounded, and became as dead men.
5
And the angel answered, and said to the
women: Be not ye afraid, for I know that ye seek
Jesus who was crucified.
6
He is not here; for he is risen, as he predicted.
Come ye, see the place where our Lord was
laid.
7
And [then] go quickly, tell his disciples, that he
is risen from the dead; and lo, he precedeth you
to Galilee; there will ye see him. Behold, I have
told you.
8
And they went quickly from the sepulchre, with
fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
9
And lo, Jesus met them, and said to them:
Hail, ye. And they came and clasped his feet,
and worshipped him.
10
Then Jesus said to them: Be not afraid; but
go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee,
and there they will see me.
11
And while they were going, some of the
guards came into the city, and told the chief
priests all that had occurred.
12
And they assembled with the Elders, and held
a council; and they gave no little money to the
guards,
13
and said to them: Say ye, that his disciples
came and stole him away by night, while we
were asleep.
14
And if this should be reported before the
President, we will pacify him, and cause you not
to be troubled.
15
And they, having received the money, did as
they were instructed. And this story is current
among the Jews to this day.
16
And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to
the mountain which Jesus had appointed for
them.
17
And when they beheld him, they worshipped
him: but some doubted.
18
And Jesus came near, and discoursed with
them, and said to them: All authority is given to
me, in heaven and on earth. And as my Father
sent me, so also I send you.
19
Go ye, therefore, and instruct all nations; and
baptize them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
20
And teach them to observe all that I have
commanded you. And, behold, I am with you
always, unto the consummation of the worlds
Amen.
The Annunciation of Mark
1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus the
Messiah, the Son of God.
2
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I
send my messenger before thy face, who shall
prepare thy way.
3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
Prepare ye the way of the LORD; make smooth
his paths.
4
John baptized in the wilderness, and
proclaimed the baptism of repentance for the
remission of sins.
5
And there went out to him all the region of
Judaea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and he
baptized them in the river Jordan, while they
confessed their sins.
6
And this John was clad in raiment of camels'
hair; and was girded with a cincture of skin
about his loins; and his food was locusts and
wild honey.
7
And he proclaimed, and said: Behold, after me
cometh one more powerful than I, of whom I am
not worthy to stoop and untie the fastenings of
his shoes.
8
I have baptized you with water; but he will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
9
And it occurred, in those days, that Jesus
came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was
baptized in Jordan by John.
10
And immediately on his coming from the
water, he saw the heavens cleft, and the Spirit
descending like a dove upon him.
11
And there was a voice from the heavens:
Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I delight.
12
And directly the Spirit carried him into the
wilderness:
13
and he was there in the wilderness forty days,
being tempted by Satan. And he was with the
wild beasts; and angels ministered to him.
14
After John was delivered up, Jesus came into
Galilee, and proclaimed the tidings, of the
kingdom of God,
15
and said: The time is completed, and the
kingdom of God is near. Repent ye, and believe
the tidings.
16
And as he walked near the sea of Galilee, he
saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net
into the sea, for they were fishermen.
17
And Jesus said to them: Come after me, and
I will make you fishers of men.
18
And immediately they left their nets, and went
after him.
19
And as he passed on a little, he saw James
the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who
also were in a ship, and mending their nets.
20
And he called them: and immediately they left
Zebedee their father in the ship, with the hired
servants, and went after him.
21
And when they entered Capernaum, he
immediately taught on the sabbath in their
synagogues.
22
And they were astonished at his doctrine; for
he taught them, as having authority, and not as
their Scribes.
23
And in their synagogue was a man, in whom
was an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
24
and said: What have we to do with thee?
Jesus thou Nazarean. Hast thou come to
destroy us? I know thee, who thou art, the Holy
One of God.
25
And Jesus rebuked him, and said: Shut thy
mouth, and come out of him.
26
And the unclean spirit threw him down, and
cried with a loud voice, and came out of him.
27
And they were all amazed, and inquired one
of another, and said: What is this? What new
doctrine is this? For with authority he
commandeth the unclean spirits, and they obey
him.
28
And immediately his fame spread into all the
land of Galilee.
29
And he retired from the synagogue, and
entered into the house of Simon and Andrew,
with James and John.
30
And Simon's mother-in-law was lying sick
with a fever: and they told him about her.
31
And he came, and took her hand, and raised
her up; and immediately the fever left her, and
she ministered to them.
32
And in the evening at the setting of the sun,
they brought to him all them that were diseased,
and demoniacs.
33
And all the city was collected at the door.
34
And he healed many who labored under
divers diseases, and cast out many demons;
and he suffered not the demons to speak,
because they knew him.
35
And in the morning, he rose much before
others, and retired to a solitary place, and there
prayed.
36
And Simon and his associates sought for him.
37
And when they found him, they said to him:
Every body is seeking for thee.
38
And he said to them: Go into the adjacent
villages and towns; for there also I will preach,
because therefore have I come.
39
And he preached in all their synagogues, in
all Galilee, and cast out demons.
40
And a leper came to him, and fell at his feet,
and entreated him, and said to him: If thou wilt,
thou canst make me clean.
41
And Jesus had compassion on him, and
stretched out his hand, and touched him, and
said: I will; be thou clean.
42
And in that hour, his leprosy departed from
him, and he became clean.
43
And he charged him, and sent him away,
44
and he said to him: See that thou tell no
person; but go, show thyself to the priests, and
offer an oblation on account of thy purification,
as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
45
And he, as he went out, began to proclaim [it]
much, and to divulge the matter; so that Jesus
could not openly go into the city, but was
without, in desert places; and they came to him
from every quarter.
2:1 And Jesus again entered into Capernaum,
after some days. And when they heard that he
was in the house,
2 20
many were assembled, so that [the house]
could not contain them, not even before the
door. And he held discourse with them.
3 21
And they came to him and brought to him a
paralytic, borne between four persons.
4
And as they could not come near him on
account of the crowd, they ascended to the roof,
and removed the covering of the place where
Jesus was, and let down the bed on which the
paralytic lay.
5
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the
paralytic: My son, thy sins are forgiven thee.
6
And there were some Scribes and Pharisees
there, who sat and reasoned in their hearts:
7 24
Who is this speaking, blasphemy? Who can
forgive sins, except God only?
8 25
And Jesus knew, in his spirit, that they thus
reasoned in themselves; and he said to them:
Why reason ye thus in your heart?
9 26
Which is the easier, to say to a paralytic, Thy
sins are forgiven thee? or to say, Arise, take up
thy bed, and walk?
10
But that ye may know that the Son of man
hath power on earth to forgive sins, he said to
the paralytic,
11
I say to thee, Arise, take thy bed, and go to
thy house.
12
And he arose in that hour, took up his bed,
and departed in presence of them all: so that
they were all amazed, and praised God, saying:
We never saw the like.
13
And he went again to the sea; and all the
multitude came to him, and he taught them.
14
And as he passed along he saw Levi the son
of Alpheus sitting among the publicans. And he
said to him: Come after me. And he arose and
went after him.
15
And it was so, that as he reclined in his
[Levi's] house, many publicans and sinners
reclined with Jesus and with his disciples: for
they were many, and they followed him.
16
And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw
that he ate with publicans and with sinners, they
said to his disciples: Why doth he eat and drink
with publicans and sinners?
17
When Jesus heard [it], he said to them: The
healthy need not a physician, but those laboring
under disease: I came, not to call the righteous,
but sinners.
18
And the disciples of John and of the
Pharisees were fasters; and they came and said
to him: Why are the disciples of John and of the
Pharisees fasters, and thy disciples fast not?
19
Jesus said to them: Can the guests of the
nuptial chamber fast so long as the bridegroom
is with them? No.
But the days will come, when the bridegroom
will be taken from them, and then they will fast,
in that day.
No one taketh a patch of new cloth and
seweth it upon an old garment, lest the
supplemental new should take from the old, and
the rent become the greater.
22
And no one putteth new wine into old sacks,
lest the wine burst the sacks, and the sacks be
spoiled, and the wine spilled; but they put new
wine into new sacks.
23
And it was so, that as Jesus on a sabbath
walked in the tillage grounds, his disciples
walked and plucked the ears.
And the Pharisees said to him: See, how on
the sabbath, they do that which is not lawful?
Jesus said to them: Have ye never read what
David did, when he had need and was hungry,
he and his attendants?
How he entered the house of God, when
Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of
the LORD's table, which it was not lawful for any
but priests to eat, and gave [it] also to those with
him?
27
And he said to them: The sabbath was made
on man's account, and not man for the sake of
the sabbath.
28
Therefore also the Son of man is lord of the
sabbath.

3:1 And again Jesus entered into a synagogue.
And there was a man there, whose hand was
withered.
2
And they watched him, that if he should heal
on the sabbath, they might accuse him.
3
And he said to the man of the withered hand:
Stand up in the midst.
4
And he said also to them: Is it lawful to do
good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to give life to
a person, or to destroy? But they were silent
5 27
And he looked on them with indignation, being
grieved with the hardness of their heart. And he
said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he
stretched forth, and his hand was restored.
6
And the Pharisees went out, that very hour,
with the domestics of Herod, and held a
consultation against him, how they might destroy
him.
7
And Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea.
And many people joined him from Galilee, and
from Judaea,
8
and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and
from beyond Jordan, and from Tyre, and from
Sidon: great multitudes,--- when they heard all
that he did, came to him.
9
And he told his disciples to bring him a ship,
on account of the multitude, lest they should
crowd upon him
10
For he had healed many, so that they rushed
upon him, in order to touch him.
11
And they who were afflicted with unclean
spirits, when they saw him, fell down and cried
out, and said: Thou art the Son of God.
12
And he charged them much, not to make him
known.
13
And he ascended a mountain, and called
whom he pleased; and they came to him.
14
And he chose twelve to be with him, whom he
would send out to preach,
15
and who would have power to heal the sick,
and to cast out demons.
16
And to Simon he gave the name of Cephas.
17
And to James the son of Zebedee and to
John the brother of James, he gave the name of
Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder.
18
And [he chose also] Andrew, and Philip, and
Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and
James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and
Simon the Canaanite,
19
And Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. And
they came to the house:
20
and the multitude assembled again, so that
they could not eat bread.
21
And his kinsmen heard, and went out to take
him; for they said: He is out of his reason.
22
And those Scribes that had come down from
Jerusalem, said: Beelzebub is in him; and by the
prince of demons he expelleth demons.
23
And Jesus called them, and said to them, by
similitudes: How can Satan cast out Satan?
24
For if a kingdom be divided against itself, that
kingdom cannot stand.
25
And if a house be divided against itself, that
house cannot stand.
26
And if Satan rise up against himself and be
divided, he cannot stand, but is at an end.
No one can enter the house of a strong man,
and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the
strong man; and then he may rob his house.
28
Verily I say to you: All sins, and the
blasphemies that men may utter, may be
forgiven them:
29
but whoever shall blaspheme against the
Holy Spirit, to him for ever there is no
forgiveness; but he is obnoxious to eternal
judgment.
30
Because they had said: An unclean spirit is in
him.
31
And his mother and his brothers came, and,
standing without, sent to call him to them.
32
And the multitude were sitting around him,
and they said to him: Lo, thy mother and thy
brothers, without, call for thee.
33
He replied, and said to them: Who is my
mother? and who are my brothers?
34
And he looked upon those who sat by him,
and said: Behold my mother! and, behold my
brothers!
35
For whoever shall do the pleasure of God, he
is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.
4:1 And again he began to teach by the side of
the sea. And great multitudes were assembled
about him; so that he embarked and sat in a
ship on the sea, and all the multitude stood on
the land by the side of the sea.
2
And he taught them much by similitudes. And
in his teaching, he said:
3
Hear ye: Behold a sower went forth to sow.
4
And as he sowed, some [seed] fell on the side
of the path; and a bird came, and devoured it.
5
And other [seed] fell on a rock, so that it had
not much earth; and it soon shot up, because it
had no depth of earth.
6
But when the sun was up, it wilted; and
because it had no root, it dried up.
7
And other [seed] fell among thorns. And the
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no
fruits.
8 27
And other [seed] fell on good ground, and
came up, and grew, and yielded fruits; some
thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred.
9 28
And he said: Whoever hath ears to hear, let
him hear.
10
And when they were by themselves, those
with him, together with the twelve, asked him
[concerning] this similitude.
11
And Jesus said to them: To you it is given to
know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to
them without, all is in similitudes:
12
that when they see, they may see and not
see, and when they hear, they may hear and not
understand; lest they should be converted, and
their sins be forgiven them.
13
And he said to them: Do ye not understand
this similitude? And how will ye understand all
similitudes?
14
The sower that sowed, sowed the word.
15
And those by the side of the path, are they in
whom the word is sown; and as soon as they
have heard [it], Satan cometh, and taketh away
the word that was sown in their hearts.
16
And those sown on the rock, are they who,
when they hear the word, immediately with joy
receive it.
17
And they have no root in them, but are
temporary; and when there is affliction or
persecution on account of the word, they are
quickly stumbled.
18
And those sown among thorns, are they that
hear the word,
19
and the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the residue of other
lusts enter in and choke the word, and it is
without fruits.
20
And those sown on good ground are they that
hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruits, by
thirties, and by sixties, and by hundreds.
21
And he said to them: Is a lamp brought to be
placed under a bushel, or under a bed? Is it not
to be placed on a light-stand?
22
For there is nothing hid, which will not be
exposed; and nothing concealed, which will not
be made manifest.
23
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
24
And he said to them: Take heed what ye
hear: with what measure ye measure, it shall be
measured to you: and there shall more be given
to you who hear.
25
For to him that hath, will more be given; and
from him that hath not, even what he hath, will
be taken from him.
26
And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a
man should cast seed into the ground,
and should sleep and rise, by night and by
day, and the seed should grow and shoot up, he
knoweth not how.
For the earth bringeth forth the fruit; first the
plant, and subsequently the ear, and at last the
complete wheat in the ear.
29
And when the fruit is ripe, immediately
cometh the sickle, because the harvest hath
arrived.
30
And he said: To what shall we liken the
kingdom of God? and with what similitude shall
we compare it?
31
It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when
it is sown in the earth, is the least of all seeds
sown on the earth;
32
and when it is sown it springeth up, and
becometh greater than all herbs, and produceth
great branches, so that birds can lodge under its
shadow.
33
And by many such similitudes,---similitudes
such as they could hear,---Jesus discoursed
with the people.
34
And without similitudes he did not converse
with them: but to his disciples, between himself
and them, he explained every thing.
35
And he said to them, the same day at
evening: Let us pass over to the other side.
36
And they sent away the multitudes: and they
conducted him in the ship as he was. And there
were also with him other little ships.
37
And there was a great tempest and wind: and
the waves beat upon the ship, and it was near
being filled.
38
And Jesus was asleep on a pillow in the
hinder part of the ship. And they came and
awoke him, and said to him: Our Rabbi, carest
thou not, that we perish?
39
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and
said to the sea: Cease; be still. And the wind
ceased, and there was a great calm.
40
And he said to them: Why were ye so fearful?
and why have ye not faith?
41
And they feared with great fear: and they
said, one to another: Who is this, that even the
winds and the sea obey him!
5:1 And he came to the other side of the sea, to
the country of the Gadarenes.
2
And as he went out of the ship, there met him
from the place of sepulchres a man in whom
was an unclean spirit.
3
And he dwelt in the place of sepulchres; and
no one could confine him with chains:
4
because, as often as he had been confined
with fetters and chains, he had broken the

chains and burst the fetters: and no one could
subdue him.
5
And continually, by night and by day, he was
in the place of sepulchres, and cried and
wounded himself with stones.
6 25
And when he saw Jesus at a distance, he ran
and worshipped him;
7 26
and cried with a loud voice, and said: What
have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the
High God? I adjure thee by God, that thou
torment me not.
8 27
For he had said to him: Come out of the man,
thou unclean spirit.
9
And he demanded of him: What is thy name?
And he replied to him: Our name is Legion; for
we are many.
10
And he besought him much, that he would
not send him out of the country.
11
And there was there by the mountain, a great
herd of swine grazing.
12
And the demons besought him, and said:
Send us upon those swine, that we may enter
them.
13
And he permitted them. And those unclean
spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the
herd, of about two thousand, ran to a precipice,
and fell into the sea, and were strangled in the
waters.
14
And they who tended them, fled and told [it] in
the city and in the villages: and they came out to
see what had occurred.
15
And: they came to Jesus, and saw him in
whom the demons had been,---him in whom had
been the legion,--- clothed, and sober, and
sitting; and they were afraid.
16
And those who had seen [it] told them how it
occurred to him who had the demons, and also
concerning the swine.
17
And they began to request him, that he would
go from their border.
18
And as he ascended the ship, the late
demoniac requested that he might continue with
him.
19
And he suffered him not, but said to him: Go
home to thy people, and tell them what the LORD
hath done for thee, and hath compassionated
thee.
20
And he went, and began to publish in
Decapolis, what Jesus had done for him. And
they were all amazed.
21
And when Jesus had passed by ship to the
other side, great multitudes again assembled
about him as he was on the shore of the sea.
22
And one of the rulers of the synagogue,
whose name was Jairus, came, and, on seeing
him, fell at his feet,
23
and besought him much, and said to him: My
daughter is very sick; but come and lay thy hand
on her, and she will be cured, and will live.
24
And Jesus went with him; and a great
company attended him, and pressed upon him.
And a woman who had had a defluxion of
blood twelve years,
and who had suffered much from many
physicians, and had expended all she
possessed, and was not profited, but was even
the more afflicted;
when she heard of Jesus, came behind him
in the press of the crowd, and touched his
garment
28
For she said: If I but touch his garment, I shall
live.
29
And immediately the fountain of her blood
dried up; and she felt in her body that she was
healed of her plague.
30
And Jesus at once knew in himself, that virtue
had issued from him: and he turned to the
throng, and said: Who touched my clothes?
31
And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the
throngs that press upon thee; and sayest thou,
Who touched me?
32
And he looked around, to see who had done
this.
33
And the woman, fearing and trembling, for
she knew what had taken place in her, came
and fell down before him, and told him all the
truth.
34
And he said to her: My daughter, thy faith
hath made thee live: go in peace; and be thou
healed of thy plague.
35
And while he was speaking, some domestics
of the ruler of the synagogue came, and said:
Thy daughter is dead: why therefore troublest
thou the teacher?
36
But Jesus heard the word they spoke, and
said to the ruler of the synagogue: Fear not; only
believe.
37
And he suffered no one to go with him,
except Simon Cephas, and James, and John the
brother of James.
38
And they came to the house of the ruler of the
synagogue; and he saw, that they were in a
tumult, and weeping, and howling.
39
And he entered in and said to them: Why are
ye in a tumult, and weep? The maid is not dead,
but is asleep.
40
And they laughed at him. But Jesus put them
all out. And he took the maids father, and her
mother, and those that accompanied him, and
entered into where the maid lay.
41
And he took the maid's hand, and said to her:
Maiden, arise.
42
And immediately the maid arose, and walked;
for she was twelve years old. And they were
astonished with a great astonishment.
43
And he enjoined it upon them much, that no
one should know of it. And he directed, that they
should give her to eat.
6:1 And Jesus departed from there and came to
his own city, and his disciples attended him.
2
And when the sabbath came, he began to
teach in the synagogue. And many who heard
[him] were astonished, and said: Whence hath
he obtained these things? And, what wisdom is
this, which is given to him! and that such mighty
works are done by his hands!
3 21
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and
the brother of James and of Joses and of Judas
and of Simon? And are not his sisters here with
us? And they were stumbled in him.
4 22
And Jesus said to them: There is no prophet
who is little, except in his own city, and among
his kindred, and at home.
5
And he could not there do even one mighty
work, except that he laid his hand on a few sick,
and healed them.
6
And he wondered at the defect of their faith.
And he travelled about the villages and taught.
7 24
And he called his twelve, and began to send
them forth, two and two; and he gave them
authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out.
8 25
And he commanded them to take nothing for
the journey, except a staff only; neither a wallet,
nor bread, nor brass in their purses;
9 26
but to be shod with sandals, and not put on
two coats.
10
And he said to them: Into whatever house ye
enter, there abide till ye leave the place.
11
And whoever will not receive you, nor hear
you, when ye go out from that place shake off
the dust that is under your feet, for a testimony
to them. Verily I say to you, There will be
comfort for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of
judgment rather than for that city.
12
And they went out and proclaimed, that [men]
should repent.
13
And they cast out many demons, and many
of the sick they anointed with oil, and healed
them.
14
And Herod the king heard of Jesus,---for his
name had become known to him,---and he said:
John the Baptizer hath risen from the dead: and
therefore it is, mighty deeds are done by him.
15
Others said: He is Elijah: and others: He is a
prophet, like one of the prophets.
16
But when Herod heard [of him], he said: He is
that John whose head I struck off: he is risen
from the dead.
17
For Herod had sent and seized John and
bound him in prison, on account of Herodias, his
brother Philips wife, whom he had taken.
18
For John had said to Herod: It is not lawful for
thee to take thy brother's wife.
19
And Herodias herself was an enemy to him,
and wished to kill him, but was not able.
20
For Herod was afraid of John, because he
knew him to be a just and holy man: and he
observed him, and gave ear to him in many
things and did [the things], and he heard him
with satisfaction.
And there was a noted day, when Herod
made a supper, in the house of his nativity, for
his nobles and the chiliarchs and the chiefs of
Galilee.
And the daughter of Herodias came in, and
danced; and she pleased Herod and those
reclining with him. And the king said to the maid:
Ask of me what thou pleasest, and I will give it
thee.
23
And he swore to her: Whatever thou shalt
ask, I will give thee, even to the half of my
kingdom.
And she went out, and said to her mother:
What shall I ask of him? She said to her: The
head of John the Baptizer.
And she soon entered with eagerness to the
king, and said: I desire that thou, this hour, give
me in a dish the head of John the Baptizer.
And it pained the king greatly; yet, on account
of the oath, and on account of the guests, he
would not deny her:
27
and the king sent immediately an
executioner, and commanded [him] to bring the
head of John. And he went, and struck off the
head of John in the prison;
28
and brought it on a dish, and gave it to the
maid; and the maid gave it to her mother.
29
And his disciples heard [of it]; and they came
and took up the corpse, and laid it in a
sepulchre.
30
And the legates assembled before Jesus, and
told him all they had done, and all they had
taught.
31
And he said to them: Come, let us go into a
desert by ourselves, and rest a little. For there
were many going and coming, and they had not
opportunity even to eat bread.
32
And they went by ship to a desert place by
themselves.
33
But many saw them, as they departed, and
knew them; and from all the cities, they ran
thither by land before him.
34
And Jesus disembarked and saw great
multitudes: and he compassionated them,
because they were like sheep having no
shepherd. And he began to teach them many
things.
35
And when the time was advanced, his
disciples came to him, and said to him: This is a
desert place, and the time is advanced.
36
Dismiss them, that they may go into the fields
around us and into the villages, and may buy
themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.
37
And he said to them: Give ye them to eat.
They say to him: Shall we go and buy bread of
the value of two hundred denarii, and give them
to eat?
38
And he said to them: Go, see how many
loaves ye have here. And when they had seen,
they say to him: Five loaves and two fishes.
39
And he bid them make the people recline on
the grass by companies.
40
And they reclined, by companies of a
hundred, and of fifty.
41
And he took the five loaves and the two
fishes, and looked towards heaven, and blessed
and brake the bread, and gave to his disciples to
set before them: and they divided [also] the two
fishes among them all.
42
And they all ate, and were satisfied.
43
And they took up twelve baskets full of the
fragments and of the fishes.
44
And they who had eaten bread were five
thousand men.
45
And he immediately constrained his disciples
to take ship, and go before him to the other side,
to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the multitudes.
46
And when he had dismissed them, he went to
a mountain to pray.
47
And when evening came, the ship was in the
middle of the sea, and he alone on the land.
48
And he saw them straining themselves in
rowing; for the wind was against them. And in
the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to
them walking on the waters; and he was
disposed to pass by them.
49
And they saw him walking on the waters, and
they supposed that the appearance was a
spectre: and they cried out.
50
For they all saw him, and were afraid. And
immediately he spoke with them, and said to
them: Take courage; it is I; fear not.
51
And he entered into the ship to them; and the
wind ceased. And they were greatly amazed,
and astonished among themselves.
52
For they did not learn by the bread; because
their heart was stupid.
53
And when they had passed to the other
shore, they came to the land of Gennesaret.
54
And when they went out of the ship,
immediately the men of the place knew him.
55
And they ran through all that region, and
began to bring forth them that were sick, bearing
them on beds to where they heard he was.
56
And wherever he entered into villages or
cities, the sick were laid in he streets: and they
besought him, that they might touch but the
extremity of his raiment. And all they that
touched him, were healed.
7:1 And there gathered about him Pharisees
and Scribes, who had come from Jerusalem.
2
And they saw some of his disciples eating
bread, with their hands unwashed; and they
censured it.
3
For all the Jews and the Pharisees, unless
they carefully wash their hands do not eat;
because they hold fast the tradition of the
Elders.
4
And [coming] from the market-place, except
they baptize, they do not eat. And there are
many other things which they have received to
observe, [such as] the baptisms of cups, and of
pots, and of brazen vessels, and of couches.
5
And the Scribes and Pharisees asked him:
Why walk not thy disciples according to the
tradition of the Elders, but eat bread with their
hands unwashed?
6
And he said to them: Well did Isaiah the
prophet prophecy concerning you, ye hypocrites;
as it is written: This people honoreth me with its
lips, but their heart is very far from me.
7
And in vain do they give me reverence, while
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.
8
For ye have forsaken the commandment of
God, and hold fast the tradition of men, the
baptisms of cups, and of pots, and many things
like these.
9
He said [also] to them: Full well do ye spurn
the precept of God, that ye may establish your
tradition!
10
For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy
mother; and whoever shall revile his father or his
mother, shall surely die.
11
But ye say: If a man say to his father or to his
mother, Be it my oblation, whatever thou mayest
gain from me:
12
then ye suffer him not to do any thing for his
father or his mother.
13
And ye reject the word of God, on account of
the tradition which ye hand down. And many
things like these, ye do.
14
And Jesus called all the multitude, and said to
them: Hear, all ye; and understand.
15
There is nothing without a man which, by
entering him, can pollute him. But that which
cometh out of him, that it is that polluteth a man.
16
Whoever hath ears to hear, let him hear.
17
And when Jesus had entered the house,
apart from the multitude, his disciples asked him
about this similitude.
18
And he said to them: Are ye likewise so
undiscerning? Do ye not know, that whatever
from without entereth into a man, cannot defile
him?
19
For it doth not enter into his heart, but into his
belly, and is thrown into the digestive process,
which carries off all that is eaten.
20
But that which proceedeth from a man, that
defileth a man.
21
For from within, from the heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adultery, whoredom,
22
theft, murder, avarice, malice, deceit,
lasciviousness, an evil eye, reviling,
haughtiness, folly.
23
All these evil things come from within, and
defile a man.
24
Thence Jesus arose, and went to the border
of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and
wished no man to know him; but he could not be
concealed.
25
For immediately a woman, whose daughter
had an unclean spirit, heard of him; and she
came, and fell before his feet,
26
the woman was a Gentile from Phenicia of
Syria, and besought him, that he would expel
the demon from her daughter.
27
Jesus said to her: Permit the children first to
be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take the
children's bread and cast it to dogs.
28
And she replied, and said to him: Yes, my
Lord: and yet the dogs under the table eat the
children's crumbs.
29
Jesus said to her: Go thou; because of this
speech, the demon hath departed from thy
daughter.
30
And she went to her house, and found her
daughter lying on a bed, and the demon gone
from her.
31
Again Jesus departed from the border of Tyre
and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, to
the border of Decapolis.
32
And they brought to him a deaf and
stammering man, and besought him to lay his
hand on him.
33
And he led him aside from the multitude, and
put his fingers into his ears, and spit, and
touched his tongue,
34
and looked towards heaven, and sighed, and
said to him: Be opened.
35
And immediately his ears were opened, and
the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he
spake plainly.
36
And he charged them to tell no man of it: and
the more he charged them, the more they
proclaimed it.
37
And they admired exceedingly, and said: He
doeth every thing excellently: he maketh the
deaf to hear, and the speechless to talk.
8:1 And in those days, when the multitude was
great, and had nothing to eat, he called his
disciples, and said to them:
2
I compassionate this multitude; for, lo, three
days have they continued with me, and they
have nothing to eat.
3
And if I send them to their homes fasting, they
will faint by the way: for some of them have
come from a great distance.
4
His disciples say to him: Whence can one,
here in the desert, satisfy all these with bread?
5
And he asked them: How many loaves have
ye? They say to him, Seven.
6
And he directed the multitudes to recline on
the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and
blessed, and brake, and grave to his disciples to
set forth; and they set before the multitudes.
7
And there were a few fishes; and them he also
blessed, and ordered them set forth.
8
And they ate, and were satisfied: and they
took up seven baskets of the remaining
fragments.
9
And the men who had eaten, were about four
thousand: and he sent them away.
10
And immediately he entered a ship, with his
disciples, and came to the place Dalmanutha.
11
And the Pharisees came out, and began to
dispute with him; and, to tempt him, they
demanded of him a sign from heaven.
12
And he sighed with his breath, and said: Why
doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I
say to you, No sign will be given to this
generation.
13
And he left them, and embarked in the ship;
and they passed to the other shore.
14
And they had forgotten to take bread with
them, and had but a single cake in the ship with
them.
15
And he charged them, and said to them: Take
heed, and beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
16
And they reasoned one with another, and
said: It is, because we have no bread.
17
And Jesus knew [it], and said to them: Why
reason ye, because ye have no bread? Do ye
still not know, nor understand? How long will
your heart be hard?
18
and ye have eyes, but see not? and have
ears, but hear not, nor reflect?
19
When I broke the five loaves to five thousand,
how many baskets full of the fragments took ye
up? They say to him: Twelve.
20
He saith to them. And when the seven to four
thousand, how many baskets full of the
fragments took ye up? They say: Seven.
21
He saith to them: Why is it that, to this time,
ye do not consider?
22
And he came to Bethsaida: and they brought
to him a blind man, and besought him to touch
him.
23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and
led him out of the village, and spit on his eyes,
and laid on his hand: and asked him, what he
saw.
24
And he gazed, and said: I see men like trees
which walk.
25
Again he laid his hand on his eyes, and he
was recovered, and saw every thing plainly.
26
And he sent him to his house, and said to
him: Neither enter into the village, nor tell any
person in the village.
27
And Jesus and his disciples went to the
villages of Caesarea Philippi. And he asked his
disciples by the way, and said to them: Who, do
men say of me, that I am?
28
And they said to him: That [thou art] John the
Baptizer; and others: That [thou art] Elijah; and
others: That [thou art] one of the prophets.
29
Jesus said to them: And who, do ye
yourselves say of me, that I am? Simon replied,
and said to him: Thou art the Messiah, the Son
of the living God.
30
And he charged them, that they should say
[this] of him to no person.
31
And he began to teach them, that the Son of
man was about to suffer much, and be rejected
by the Elders and by the chief priests and by the
Scribes, and be killed, and rise on the third day.
32
And he spoke out the thing distinctly. And
Cephas took him, and began to rebuke him.
33
But he turned, and looked upon his disciples,
and rebuked Simon, and said: Get thee behind
me, Satan: for thou dost not consider what is of
God, but what is of men.
34
And Jesus called the multitude, together with
his disciples, and said to them: Whoever will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross, and come after me.
35
For, whoever will preserve his life, shall lose
it; and whoever will lose his life on my account,
and on account of my tidings, shall preserve it.
36
For, what will a man be profited, if he gain the
whole world, and lose his life?
37
Or what will a man give in exchange for his
life?
38
For, whoever shall be ashamed of me, and of
my words, in this sinful and adulterous
generation, of him also will the Son of man be
ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his
Father, with his holy angels.
9:1 And he said to them: Verily I say to you,
There are some standing here, who will not taste
of death, until they shall see the kingdom of God
to be coming with power.
2
And after six days, Jesus took Cephas and
James and John, and led them to a high
mountain, apart; and was transformed before
them.
3
And his raiment shone and was very white,
like snow, so as men on earth can never whiten.
4
And there appeared to them Moses and Elijah,
in conversation with Jesus.
5
And Cephas said to him: Rabbi, it is delightful
for us to be here. And let us make three booths;
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for
Elijah.
6
But he did not know what he said, for they
were in trepidation.
7
And there was a cloud, and it overshadowed
them. And a voice issued from the cloud, which
said: This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him.
8
And suddenly, when the disciples looked up,
they saw no one with them, except Jesus only.
9
And as they descended the mountain, he
commanded them to tell no man what they had
seen, till after the Son of man should be risen
from the dead.
10
And they kept that saying in their mind; and
inquired, What doth this saying mean: "When he
shall be risen from the dead!"
11
And they asked him, and said: Why then do
the Scribes say, that Elijah must first come?
12
He said to them: Elijah [truly] first cometh, to
prepare all things: and, as it is written of the Son
of man, he will suffer much, and be rejected.
13
But I say to you: That Elijah hath come; and
they have done to him all that they desired, as it
was written of him.
14
And when he came to his disciples, he saw a
great multitude with them, and the Scribes
disputing with them.
15
And immediately the multitude saw him, and
were surprised: and they ran and saluted him.
16
And he asked the Scribes: What were ye
disputing with them?
17
And one of the multitude replied, and said:
Teacher, I have brought to thee my son, who
hath a spirit that will not speak.
18
And wherever he seizeth him, he shaketh and
teareth him: and he gnasheth his teeth, and
pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples, to cast
him out; and they could not.
19
Jesus answered, and said to them: O
incredulous generation! How long shall I be with
you? how long bear with you? Bring him to me.
20
And they brought him to him. And when the
spirit saw him, immediately he shook him; and
he fell upon the ground, and wallowed and
foamed.
21
And Jesus asked his father, how long a time
he had been thus. He said to him: Lo, from his
childhood.
22
And many times it hath thrown him into the
fire, and into the water, to destroy him. But, if
thou canst do any thing, aid me and have
compassion on me.
23
Jesus said to him: If thou canst believe; every
thing can be, to him that believeth.
24
And immediately the father of the child cried
out, while he wept and said: I believe; aid thou
the defect of my faith.
25
And when Jesus saw that the people were,
running and collecting around him, he rebuked
the unclean spirit, and said to him: Thou deaf
and unspeaking spirit, I command thee, come
out of him; and no more enter him.
26
And the demon cried out greatly, and bruised
him, and came out. And he was as a dead
person; so that many would say, he is dead.
27
And Jesus took him by the hand, and raised
him up.
28
And when Jesus entered the house, his
disciples asked him privately: Why could not we
cast him out?
29
He saith to them: This kind can come out, by
nothing but fasting and prayer.
30
And when he departed from there, they
passed through Galilee: and he desired that no
one might know him.
31
For he taught his disciples, and said to them:
The Son of man is delivered into the hands of
men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed,
on the third day, he will rise.
32
But they did not understand that speech; and
they were afraid to ask him.
33
And they came to Capernaum. And when
they entered the house, he asked them: What
disputed ye among yourselves by the way?
34
And they were silent; for by the way they had
contended with one another, which should be
the great among them.
35
And Jesus sat down, and called the twelve,
and said to them: Whoever would be first, let
him be last of all, and servitor to all.
36
And he took a child, and set him in the midst,
and took him in his arms and said to them:
37
Whoever receiveth one in my name, like this
child, he receiveth me; and he that receiveth me,
receiveth not me [only], but him that sent me.
38
John said to him: Rabbi, we saw one casting
out demons in thy name, and we forbad him,
because he adhereth not to us.
39
Jesus said to them: Forbid him not; for there
is no one who doeth mighty works in my name,
that can readily speak evil of me.
40
Whoever therefore is not against you, is for
you.
41
For whoever shall give you to drink a cup of
water only, on the ground that ye are Messiah's
[followers], verily I say to you, he will not lose his
reward.
42
And whoever shall cause one of these little
ones that believe in me to stumble, it were better
for him, if a millstone were put to his neck, and
he cast into the sea.
43
And if thy hand make thee offend, cut it off: it
is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than,
having two hands, to go into hell;
44
where their worm dieth not, and their fire is
not extinguished.
45
And if thy foot make thee offend, cut it off: it is
better for thee to enter into life lamed, than,
having two feet, to fall into hell;
46
where their worm dieth not, and their fire is
not extinguished.
47
And if thy eye make thee offend, pluck it out:
it is better for thee to enter with one eye into the
kingdom of God, than, having two eyes, to fall
into the hell of fire;
48
where their worm dieth not, and their fire is
not extinguished.
49
For every thing will be salted with fire; and
every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
50
Salt is a good thing: but if the salt become
insipid, with what will it be salted? Let there be
salt in you: and be ye in peace, one with
another.
10:1 And he arose from there, and came to the
border of Judaea, on the other side the Jordan.
And great multitudes came to him there; and

again he instructed them, as he was
accustomed.
2
And the Pharisees came to him, and, tempting
him, inquired if it were lawful for a man to
divorce his wife.
3
He said to them: What did Moses command
you?
4
They said: Moses permitted us to write a bill of
divorce, and send [her] away.
5
Jesus answered and said to them: On account
of the hardness of your heart, Moses wrote you
this precept.
6
But, from the beginning, God made them a
male and a female.
7
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and adhere to his wife:
8
and they two shall be one flesh. Wherefore
they are not two, but one flesh.
9 28
What therefore God hath conjoined, let not
man separate.
10
And in the house, the disciples asked him
again of this matter.
11
And he said to them: Whoever shall divorce
his wife, and take another, committeth adultery.
12
And if a woman shall leave her husband, and
marry another, she committeth adultery.
13
And they brought little children to him, that he
might touch them. But his disciples rebuked
those who brought them.
14
And when Jesus saw it, he was displeased;
and he said to them, Suffer little children to
come to me, and forbid them not; for of those
like them is the kingdom of God.
15
Verily I say to you, That whoever doth not
receive the kingdom of God, like a little child,
shall not enter it.
16
And he took them in his arms, and laid his
hand on them and blessed them.
17
And as he walked in the way, one ran and fell
upon his knees, and asked him, and said: Good
Teacher, what must I do, to inherit eternal life?
18
Jesus saith to him: Why callest thou me
good? There is none good, but one, God.
19
Thou knowest the commandments; thou shalt
not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou
shalt not kill, thou shalt not give false testimony,
thou shalt not defraud; honor thy father and thy
mother.
20
And he answered, and said to him: Teacher,
all these have I kept from my childhood.
21
And Jesus looked on him, and loved him, and
said to him: One thing thou lackest. Go, sell all
that thou possessest, and give to the poor, and
there will be a treasure for thee in heaven; and
take thy cross, and come after me.
22
And he was made sad by that speech, and
went away sorrowing: for he possessed great
riches.
23
And Jesus looked upon his disciples, and
said to them: How hard for those who possess
wealth, to enter into the kingdom of God!
24
And the disciples wondered at the remark.
And Jesus, replied again, and said to them: My
children, how hard it is, for those who trust in
riches, to enter into the kingdom of God.
25
It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God.
26
And they wondered the more, and said
among themselves: Who can obtain life!
27
And Jesus looked on them again, and said to
them: With men, this is not possible, but with
God [it is]; for with God all things are possible.
And Cephas began to say: Lo, we have left
every thing, and have cleaved to thee.
29
Jesus answered and said: Verily I say to you,
There is no man that leaveth houses, or brothers
or sisters, or father or mother, or wife or
children, for my sake, and for the sake of my
tidings,
30
who will not receive a hundredfold, here in
the present time,---houses, and brothers and
sisters, and mothers and children, and lands,
with persecution; and in the world to come
eternal life.
31
But many are first, who will be last; and last,
[who will be] first.
32
And as they were in the way, going up to
Jerusalem, Jesus went before them: and they
were amazed, and walked after him with
trembling. And he took his twelve, and began to
tell them what was to befall him.
33
Behold, we are going to Jerusalem; and the
Son of man will be delivered up to the chief
priests and the Scribes; and they will condemn
him to die, and will deliver him over to the
Gentiles.
34
And they will mock him, and will scourge him,
and will spit in his face, and will kill him; and on
the third day he will arise.
35
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
came to him, and said to him: Teacher, we
desire that thou wouldst do for us all that we
ask.
36
He saith to them: What would ye, that I
should do for you?
37
They say to him: Grant to us, that one may sit
on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy
glory.
38
But he said to them: Ye know not what ye
ask. Are ye able to drink the cup, of which I

drink? and to be baptized with the baptism, that I
am baptized with?
39
They say to him: We are able. Jesus saith to
them: The cup that I drink, ye will drink, and the
baptism that I am baptized with, ye will be
baptized with:
40
But that ye should sit on my right hand and
on my left, is not mine to give, except to those
for whom it is prepared.
41
And when the ten heard [it], they began to
murmur against James and John.
42
And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye
know, that they who are accounted chiefs of the
nations, are their lords; and their great men have
authority over them.
43
But it shall not be so among you: but he that
would be great among you, must be a servitor to
you.
44
And he of you that would be first, must be
servant to every one.
45
And also the Son of man came, not to be
served, but to serve; and to give his life a
ransom for many.
46
And they came to Jericho. And as Jesus went
out of Jericho, he and his disciples and a great
multitude; Timeus, the son of Timeus, a blind
man, was sitting by the side of the way, and
begging.
47
And he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarean;
and he began to cry out, and to say: Thou Son
of David, have mercy on me.
48
And many rebuked him, that he might be
silent. But he cried out the more, and said: Thou
Son of David, have mercy on me.
49
And Jesus stood, and directed him to be
called. And they called the blind man, and said
to him: Take courage: arise, he calleth thee.
50
And the blind man cast off his garment and
arose, and went to Jesus.
51
Jesus said to him: What wilt thou, that I do for
thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabbi, that
I may have sight.
52
And Jesus said to him: Go; thy faith hath
procured thee life. And immediately his sight
was restored; and he followed after him.
11:1 And as they approached Jerusalem, near
by Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of
Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
2 20
and said to them: Go ye to the village that is
over against us, and as soon as ye enter it, ye
will find a colt tied, on which no person hath
ridden: loose [him], and bring him hither.
3
And, if any one say to you, Why do ye this?
Say ye to him: Because our Lord hath need of
him. And immediately he will send him hither.
4
And they went, and they found the colt tied, by
the door, without in the street. And as they were
loosing [him],
5
some of those standing there, said to them:
What do ye, untying the colt?
6
And they said to them, as Jesus had
commanded them; and they permitted them.
7
And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast
their garments upon him, and set Jesus upon
him.
8
And many spread their garments in the way;
and others cut branches from the trees, and
strewed them in the way.
9
And those preceding him, and those following
him shouted and said: Hosanna: Blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the LORD.
10
And blessed is the advancing kingdom of our
father David. Hosanna in the highest [heavens].
11
And Jesus entered Jerusalem and the
temple, and surveyed every thing. And when
evening arrived, he went out to Bethany with the
twelve.
12
And the following day, as he left Bethany, he
was hungry:
13
and he saw a fig-tree at a distance, on which
were leaves, and he came to it, if he could find
somewhat on it. And when he had come, he
found on it only leaves; for the time of figs had
not arrived.
14
And he said to it: Henceforth and for ever, let
no man eat fruit from thee: and the disciples
heard it. And they came to Jerusalem.
15
And Jesus entered the temple of God: and he
began to cast out those who bought and sold in
the temple; and he overturned the counters of
the money-brokers, and the seats of them that
sold doves.
16
And he suffered no one to carry goods
through the temple.
17
And he taught them, and said: Is it not
written, My house shall be called the house of
prayer for all nations? But ye have made it a den
of robbers.
18
And the chief priests and the Scribes heard
[him], and they sought how they might destroy
him; for they were afraid of him, because all the
people admired his doctrine.
19
And when it was evening, they went out from
the city.
And in the morning, as they passed by, they
saw the fig-tree dried up, as it were, from its
root.
21
And Simon remembered, and said to him:
Rabbi; behold, the fig-tree which thou cursedst,
is dried up.
22
And Jesus replied, and said to them: Have
faith in God.
23
Verily I say to you, That whoever shall say to
this mountain, Be thou removed, and fall into the
sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that what he said will occur, to him will
be the thing he spoke.
24
Therefore I say to you, That whatsoever ye
shall pray and ask for, believe that it will be, and
it will be to you.
25
And when ye stand up to pray, forgive what
ye have against any one; that your Father who is
in heaven may also forgive your offences.
26
For if ye forgive not, your Father also who is
in heaven will not forgive you your offences.
27
And they came again to Jerusalem. And as
he was walking in the temple, the chief priests
and Scribes and Elders came to him,
28
and said to him: By what authority doest thou
these things? And who gave thee the authority
to do these things?
29
And Jesus said to them: I also will ask you
one thing, that ye may tell me, and I will tell you
by what authority I do these things.
30
The baptism of John, whence was it? from
heaven, or from men? Tell me.
31
And they reasoned with themselves, and
said: If we should say to him, From heaven; he
will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?
32
But if we should say, From men; there is fear
from the people; for they have all held John to
be truly a prophet.
33
And they answered, and said to Jesus: We
do not know. He said to them: Neither do I tell
you by what authority I do these things.
12:1 And he began to discourse with them in
similitudes. A certain man planted a vineyard,
and inclosed it with a hedge, and dug in it a wine
vat, and built a tower in it, and put it into the
hands of husbandmen, and removed to a
distance.
2 20
And at the proper time, he sent his servant to
the husbandmen, to receive of the fruits of the
vineyard.
3
And they beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 22
And again he sent to them another servant;
and him also they stoned, and wounded, and
sent him away under indignities.
5
And again he sent another; and him they
killed. And he sent many other servants, some
of whom they beat, and some they killed.
6
At last, having an only and dear son, he sent
him to them; for he said, Perhaps they will
respect my son.
7
But those husbandmen said among
themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill
him, and the inheritance will be ours.
8
And they took him, and slew [him], and cast
[him] out of the vineyard.
9
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do?
He will come and destroy those husbandmen,
and transfer the vineyard to others.
10
And have ye not read this scripture, The
stone which the builders rejected, hath become
the head of the corner:
11
From the LORD, was this; and it is wonderful
in our eyes?
12
And they sought to apprehend him, but were
afraid of the people; for they knew that he spoke
this similitude against them. And they left him,
and went away.
13
And they sent to him some of the Scribes and
of the household of Herod, to ensnare him in
discourse.
14
And these came, and asked him: Teacher;
we know that thou art veracious, and hast no
fear of man; for thou regardest not the face of
men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it
lawful to give capitation money to Caesar; or
not? Shall we give, or not give?
15
And he knew their wile, and said to them:
Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius, that I
may see it.
16
And they brought [one] to him. And he said to
them: Whose is this image and inscription? They
said to him: Caesar's.
17
Jesus said to them: What is Caesar's, give to
Caesar; and what is God's, [give] to God. And
they wondered at him.
18
Then came to him Sadducees, who say that
there is no resurrection; and they asked him,
and said:
19
Teacher: Moses wrote to us, that if a man's
brother die, and leave a widow, but leave no
children, his brother shall take his widow, and
raise up seed to his brother.
There were seven brothers: and the first took
a wife, and died, and left no seed.
21
And the second took her, and died, and he
also left no seed: and the third in like manner.
And the seven took her, and left no seed.
Last of all, the woman also died.
23
In the resurrection, therefore, of which of
them will she be the wife? For all the seven took
her.
24
Jesus said to them: Is it not on this account
that ye err, because ye understand not the
scriptures, nor the power of God?
25
For when they rise from the dead, they do not
take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but
they are as the angels that are in heaven.
26
But concerning the dead, that they rise, have
ye not read in a book of Moses, how God said to
him from the bush: I am the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27
He is not the God of the dead, but of the
living. Ye, therefore, do err greatly.
28
And one of the Scribes came, and heard
them as they discussed, and he saw that he
gave them an excellent answer; and he asked
him, Which is the first of all the commandments?
29
Jesus said to him: The first of all the
commandments [is]: Hear, O Israel; the LORD
our God is one LORD:
30
and thou shalt love the LORD thy God, with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and with all thy might. This is the first
commandment.
31
And the second, which is like it, [is]: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor, as thyself. There is no
other commandment greater than these.
32
The Scribe said to him: Excellently! Rabbi;
thou hast spoken the truth; for he is one [God],
and there is no other beside him.
33
And for a man to love him, with all the heart,
and with all the mind, and with all the soul, and
with all the might; and to love his neighbor, as
himself; is better than all holocausts and
sacrifices.
34
And Jesus perceived that he replied wisely;
and he answered, and said to him: Thou art not
far from the kingdom of God.---And no one
dared again to question him.
35
And as Jesus was teaching in the temple, he
answered and said: How can the Scribes say,
that Messiah is the son of David?
36
For David himself saith, by the Holy Spirit:
The LORD said to my Lord; Seat thyself on my
right hand, until I place thy enemies as a
footstool beneath thy feet.
37
David therefore calleth him "My Lord;" and
how is he his son? And all the multitude heard
him with pleasure.
38
And he said to them in his teaching: Beware
of the Scribes, who choose to walk in long
robes, and love the salutation in the streets,
39
and the chief seats in the synagogues, and
the chief couches at feasts.
40
They devour the houses of widows, under
pretence that they prolong their prayers. These
shall receive a greater condemnation.
41
And as Jesus sat over against the treasury-
room, he saw how the multitude cast money into
the treasury. And many rich ones cast in much.
42
And a poor widow came, and cast in two
mites, which are a brass farthing.
43
And Jesus called his disciples, and said to
them: Verily I say to you, That this poor widow
hath cast into the treasury more than all they
that cast in.
44
For they all cast in of that which abounded to
them, but she, of her poverty, hath cast in all
that she possessed, the whole of her property.
13:1 And as Jesus retired from the temple, one
of his disciples said to him: Teacher; behold; see
these stones, and these structures!
2
And Jesus said to him: Admirest thou these
great structures? There will not be left here one
stone upon another, not demolished.
3
And as Jesus was sitting on the mount of
Olives, over against the temple, Cephas and
James and John and Andrew asked him,
privately:
4
Tell us, when will these things be? and what
[will be] the sign that these things approach their
consummation?
5
And Jesus began to say to them Beware, that
no one mislead you:
6
for many will come in my name, and will say: I
am he. And they will mislead many.
7
But when ye shall hear of battles, and the
rumor of battles, be not afraid; for this must be;
but the end is not yet.
8
For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom, and there will be
earthquakes in several places, and there will be
famines and insurrections. These are the
beginning of sorrows.
9
And take heed to yourselves; for they will
deliver you up to the tribunals; and ye will be
beaten in the synagogues, and ye will stand
before kings and governors, on my account, for
a testimony to them.
10
And my tidings must first be proclaimed
among all the nations.
11
And when they shall lead you to deliver you
up, be not solicitous beforehand what ye shall
say, neither premeditate; but, that which shall be
given you in that hour, speak ye; for it is not ye
that speak, but the Holy Spirit.
12
And brother will deliver up his brother to
death, and the father his son; and children will
rise up against their parents, and will kill them.
13
And ye will be hated of every man, on
account of my name. But whoever shall
persevere to the end, shall live.
14
And when ye see the profane sign of
desolation, which was mentioned by Daniel the
prophet, standing where it ought not;---(let him

that readeth, understand;) then let those that are
in Judaea, flee to the mountain:
15
and let him that is on the roof, not come down
and enter [it], to take any thing from his house:
16
and let him that is in the field, not return back
to take his clothing.
17
But, woe to those with child, and to those who
nurse children, in those days!
18
And pray ye, that your flight be not in winter.
19
For in those days will be affliction, such as
hath not been from the beginning of the creation
that God made until now, and shall not be.
20
And, unless GOD should shorten those days,
no flesh would live. But, on account of the elect
whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened those
days.
21
Then, if any one shall say to you: Lo, here is
Messiah, or lo, there; give not credence.
22
For false Messiahs will arise, and lying
prophets; and they will give signs and wonders;
and will deceive, if possible, even the elect.
23
But take ye heed. Lo, I have told you the
whole beforehand.
24
And in those days, after that affliction, the sun
will be darkened; and the moon will not give her
light;
25
and the stars will fall from heaven; and the
powers of heaven will be shaken.
26
And then will they see the Son of man coming
in the clouds, with great power and glory.
27
And then will he send forth his angels, and
will assemble his elect from the four winds, from
the extremity of earth to the extremity of heaven.
28
And, from the fig-tree learn ye a simile. When
its twigs are tender, and its leaves bud forth, ye
know that summer approacheth.
29
So also, when ye shall see these
occurrences, know ye, that it is near, at the door.
30
Verily I say to you, That this generation shall
not pass away, until all these things occur.
31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
words will not pass away.
32
But of that day and that hour, knoweth no
man; nor the angels of heaven; neither the Son,
but the Father.
33
Take heed, watch, and pray; for ye know not
when the time is.
34
For it is as a man, who took a journey, and
left his home; and he gave authority to his
servants, and to each his service; and he
commanded the porter to be watchful.
35
Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when
the lord of the house cometh; at evening, or at
midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the
morning:
36
lest he come suddenly, and find you sleeping.
37
And what I say to you, I say to you all: Be ye
watchful.
14:1 And after two days, was the passover of
unleavened cakes. And the chief priests and the
Scribes sought how they might take him by
stratagem, and kill him.
2
But they said: Not on the festival, lest there be
commotion among the people.
3
And when he was at Bethany in the house of
Simon the leper, as he reclined, a woman came
having an alabaster box of precious ointment of
spikenard, of great price; and she opened and
poured upon the head of Jesus.
4
And there were certain of the disciples, who
were dissatisfied among themselves, and said:
Why was this waste of the ointment?
5
For it might have been sold for more than
three hundred denarii, and been given to the
poor. And they were indignant at her.
6
But Jesus said: Let her alone; why trouble ye
her? She hath done an excellent act towards
me.
7
For the poor ye have always with you; and
when ye please, ye can do them kind offices: but
I am not always with you.
8
What was in her power, she hath done; and by
anticipation, hath perfumed my body, as if for
burial.
9
Verily I say to you, That wherever this my
gospel shall be proclaimed, in all the world, this
also which she hath done shall be told in
memory of her.
10
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to
the chief priests, in order to betray Jesus to
them.
11
And when they heard [him], they rejoiced;
and they promised to give him money. And he
sought for opportunity to betray him.
12
And on the first day of unleavened cakes, on
which the Jews slay the passover, his disciples
said to him: Where wilt thou that we go, and
prepare for thee to eat the passover?
13
And he sent two of his disciples, and said to
them: Go ye to the city, and behold, there will
meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water. Go
ye after him,
14
and where he entereth in, say ye to the lord
of the house: Our Rabbi saith, Where is the
place of refreshment, in which I may eat the
passover with my disciples?
15
And lo, he will show you a large upper room,
furnished and prepared: there make ready for
us.
16
And his disciples went, and entered the city,
and found as he had told them: and they made
ready the passover.
17
And when it was evening, he came with his
twelve.
18
And as they reclined and ate, Jesus said:
Verily I say to you, That one of you that eateth
with me, will betray me.
19
And they began to be distressed. And they
said to him, one by one, Is it I?
20
And he said to them: It is one of the twelve
that dippeth with me in the dish.
21
And the Son of man goeth, as it is written of
him: but woe to that man, by whom the Son of
man is betrayed. Better would it have been for
that man, if he had not been born.
22
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread,
and blessed, and brake, and gave to them, and
said to them: Take; this is my body.
23
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and
blessed, and gave to them. And they all drank of
it.
24
And he said to them: This is my blood of the
new testament, which is shed in behalf of many.
25
Verily I say to you, That I will not drink again
of the product of the vine, until the day in which I
shall drink it anew in the kingdom of God.
26
And they sang praise, and went out to the
mount of Olives.
27
And Jesus said to them: All of you will this
night be stumbled in me: for it is written, "I will
smite the shepherd, and his sheep will be
scattered."
28
And when I am risen, I will precede you into
Galilee.
29
And Cephas said to him: Though they all
should be stumbled, yet I will not be.
30
Jesus said to him: Verily I say to thee, That
this day, on this night, before the cock shall crow
twice, thou wilt thrice deny me.
31
And he said, in addition: If I were to die with
thee, I will not deny thee, my Lord. And like him,
6 50
spake all the disciples.
32
And they came to the place called
Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, Sit ye
here, while I pray.
33
And he took with him Cephas and James and
John, and began to be gloomy and distressed.
34
And he said to them: My soul hath anguish,
even to death. Wait for me here, and be
watchful.
6 55
Mark 14:31 – Most Western Peshitto mss omit
“all.” However, it is present in most Eastern Peshitta
mss.
35
And he advanced a little, and fell upon the
ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the
hour might pass from him.
36
And he said: Father, my Father, thou canst
do all things. Let this cup pass from me. Yet not
my pleasure, but thine.
37
And he came and found them sleeping. And
he said to Cephas: Sleepest thou, Simon?
Couldst thou not watch with me one hour?
38
Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
The spirit is willing and ready, but the body is
weak.
39
And he went again and prayed, speaking the
same language.
40
And returning he came again and found them
sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. And they
knew not what to say to him.
41
And he came the third time, and said to them:
Sleep on now, and take rest. The end is near;
the hour is come; and lo, the Son of man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42
Arise ye; let us go. Lo, he that betrayeth me
is at hand.
43
And while he was yet speaking, Judas
Iscariot, one of the twelve, arrived, and much
people, with swords and clubs, from before the
chief priests and Scribes and Elders.
44
And the traitor who betrayed [him], had given
them a sign, and said: He whom I shall kiss is
the man. Seize promptly, and lead him away.
45
And immediately he came up, and said to
him: Rabbi, Rabbi; and kissed him.
46
And they laid hands on him and took him.
47
And one of them that stood by, drew a sword,
and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut
off his ear.
48
And Jesus answered and said to them: Have
ye come out against me, as against a robber;
with swords and clubs, to apprehend me?
49
I was daily with you, while I taught in the
temple, and ye seized me not. But this occurs,
that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
Then his disciples left him and fled.
51
And a young man followed after him, who
was clad with a linen cloth on [his] naked [body]:
and they laid hold of him.
52
And he left the linen cloth, and fled naked.
53
And they led away Jesus to Caiaphas the
high priest. And with him were assembled all the
chief priests and the Scribes and the Elders.
54
And Simon followed after him, at a distance;
into the hall of the high priest; and he sat with
the servants, and warmed himself by the fire.
And the chief priests and all the assembly
sought for testimony against Jesus, to put him to
death: but they found it not.
56
For while many testified against him, their
testimonies were inadequate.
57
And some false witnesses stood up against
him, and said:
58
We have heard him say: I will destroy this
temple, which is made with hands; and in three
days I will build another not made with hands.
59
Nor even thus were their testimonies
adequate.
60
And the high priest arose in the midst, and
interrogated Jesus and said: Returnest thou no
answer? What do these testify against thee?
61
And Jesus was silent, and made no reply.
And again the chief priest interrogated him, and
said: Art thou the Messiah, the Son of the
Blessed?
62
And Jesus said to him: I am. And ye will see
the Son of man sitting on the right hand of
power, and he will come on the clouds of
heaven.
63
And the high priest rent his tunic, and said:
What need of witnesses have we, any more?
64
Behold, from his own mouth ye have heard
blasphemy. How doth it appear to you? And they
all decided, that he deserved to die.
65
And some began to spit in his face, and to
buffet him, saying: Prophesy thou. And the
servants smote him on the cheeks.
66
And as Simon was below in the court, a maid
of the high priest came,
67
and saw him warming himself; and she
looked upon him, and said to him: And thou too
wast with Jesus the Nazarean.
68
But he denied, and said: l know not what thou
sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the
cock crew.
69
And the maid saw him again, and she began
to say to those standing by, This man also is
one of them.
70
And he again denied [it]. And a little after,
those standing there said again to Cephas:
Surely, thou art one of them; for thou art likewise
a Galilean, and thy speech answers to it.
71
And he began to imprecate, and swore: I
know not that man, of whom ye speak.
72
And immediately the cock crew the second
time. And Simon remembered the declaration of
Jesus, who said to him: Before the cock shall
crow twice, thou wilt thrice deny me. And he
began to weep.
15:1 And forthwith, in the morning, the chief
priests with the Elders and the Scribes, and the
whole Sanhedrim, held a consultation. And they
bound Jesus, and led him away, and delivered
him over to Pilate the president.
2
And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the
Jews? He replied and said to him: Thou hast
said.
3
And the chief priests accused him of many
things.
4
And Pilate again questioned him, and said to
him: Makest thou no reply? See how much they
testify against thee!
5
But Jesus gave no answer; so that Pilate
wondered.
6
And it was his custom, at each festival, to
release to them one prisoner, whom they might
desire.
7
And there was one named Bar Abas, who was
confined with the movers of sedition, who had
committed murder in the insurrection.
8
And the people clamored, and began to
demand, that he should do to them as he was
accustomed.
9
And Pilate answered, and said: Will ye, that I
release to you the king of the Jews?
10
For Pilate knew that the chief priests, from
envy, had delivered him up.
11
But the chief priests further persuaded the
multitudes, that Bar Abas should be released to
them.
12
And Pilate said to them: What will ye,
therefore, that I do to him whom ye call king of
the Jews?
13
And they again cried out: Crucify him.
14
And Pilate said to them: But what evil hath he
done? And they cried out the more: Crucify him.
15
And Pilate was willing to gratify the wishes of
the multitudes; and he released to them Bar
Abas; and, having scourged Jesus, he delivered
him to them to be crucified.
16
And the soldiers led him into the hall which
was the Praetorium; and they called together the
whole regiment;
17
and they clothed him in purple, and braided a
crown of thorns and put upon him;
18
and began to salute him with, "Hail, king of
the Jews!"
19
And they smote him on the head with a reed
and spit in his face, and bowed upon their knees
and worshipped him.
20
And having mocked him, they divested him of
the purple, and clothed him in his own garments,
and led him forth to crucify him.
21
And they compelled a passer-by, Simon the
Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
who was coming from the fields, to bear his
cross.
22
And they brought him to Golgotha, the place
which is interpreted a Skull.
23
And they gave him to drink wine in which
myrrh was mixed; and he would not receive it.
24
And when they had crucified him, they
divided his garments; and cast the lot upon
them, what each should take.
25
And it was the third hour when they crucified
him.
26
And the cause of his death was written in the
inscription: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27
And they crucified with him two robbers, the
one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
28
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith: He
was accounted among the wicked.
29
And they also that passed by, reviled him;
and, nodding their heads, they said: Aha, thou
that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three
days,
30
rescue thyself, and come down from the
cross.
31
And so also the chief priests, jeering one with
another, and the Scribes, said: He gave life to
others, his own life he cannot save.
32
Let Messiah, the king of the Jews, now
descend from the cross, that we may see [it] and
believe in him. And those also who were
crucified with him, derided him.
33
And when the sixth hour was come, there
was darkness over all the land until the ninth
hour.
34
And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud
voice, and said: Il, Il, lemono shebakthone; that
is: My God, my God; why hast thou forsaken
me?
35
And some of them that stood by, when they
heard it, said: He calleth for Elijah.
36
And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar,
and tied it on a reed, to offer him drink. And they
said: Desist; let us see if Elijah will come to take
him down.
37
And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and
expired.
38
And the curtain of the door of the temple was
rent, from the top to the bottom.
39
And when the centurion, who was standing
near him, saw that he so cried and expired, he
said: Verily, this was the Son of God.
40
And there were women looking on, from a
distance, Mary Magdalena, and Mary the mother
of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
41
who, when he was in Galilee adhered to him,
and ministered to him; and many other women,
who had come up with him to Jerusalem.
42
And, as it was the eve of preparation, which
precedeth the sabbath,
43
Joseph of Ramath, an honorable counsellor,
who also himself waited for the kingdom of God,
came, and assuming courage, went to Pilate,
and begged the body of Jesus.
44
And Pilate wondered that he should be
already dead. And he called the centurion, and
inquired if he had been any time dead.
45
And when he learned it, he gave his body to
Joseph.
46
And Joseph bought fine linen, and took it
down, and wrapped it in the linen, and deposited
it in a sepulchre that was hewed in a rock, and
rolled a stone against the door of the sepulchre.
47
And Mary Magdalena and Mary [the mother]
of Joses saw where he was laid.
16:1 And when the sabbath had passed, Mary
Magdalena, and Mary [the mother] of James,
and Salome, bought aromatics, that they might
come and anoint him.
2
And in the morning of the first day of the week,
they came to the sepulchre as the sun arose.
3
And they said among themselves: Who will roll
back for us the stone from the door of the
sepulchre?
4
And they looked, and saw that the stone was
rolled away; for it was very great.
5
And entering the sepulchre, they saw a youth
sitting on the right hand, and clothed in a white
robe: and they were in perturbation.
6
But he said to them: Be not affrighted. Ye are
seeking Jesus the Nazarean, who was crucified.
He is risen; he is not here. Behold the place
where he was laid.
7
But go, tell his disciples and Cephas: Lo, he
precedeth you into Galilee; there will ye see him,
as he said to you.
8
And when they heard, they fled and left the
sepulchre; for astonishment and trembling had
seized them; and they said nothing to any one,
for they were in fear.
9
And in the morning of the first day of the week,
he arose; and he appeared first to Mary
Magdalena, from whom he had cast out seven
demons.
10
And she went and told them that had been
with him, while they were mourning and
weeping.
11
And they, when they heard [the women] say
that he was alive, and that he had appeared to
them, did not believe them.
12
After this he appeared, under another aspect,
to two of them as they walked and went into the
country.
13
And these went and told the rest; but they
would not believe them
14
And at last, he appeared to the eleven: as
they reclined at table; and he reproved the
slenderness of their faith, and the hardness of
their heart; because they believed not those who
had seen him actually risen.
15
And he said to them: Go ye into all the world,
and proclaim my tidings in the whole creation.
16
He that believeth, and is baptized, liveth; but
he that believeth not, is condemned.
17
And these signs shall attend them that
believe: In my name, they will cast out demons;
and in new tongues will they speak.
18
And they will take up serpents; and if they
should drink a deadly poison, it will not harm
them; and they will lay their hands on the sick,
and they will be healed.
19
And Jesus, our Lord, after he had conversed
with them, ascended to heaven, and sat on the
right hand of God.
20
And they went forth, and preached
everywhere: and our Lord aided them, and
confirmed their discourses by the signs which
they wrought.
The Annunciation of Luke the Evangelist
1:1 Since many have been disposed to write
narratives of those events, of which we have full
assurance,
2 19
as they delivered them to us, who from the
first were eye-witnesses and ministers of the
word;
3 20
it seemed proper for me also, as I had
examined them all accurately, to write out the
whole, methodically, for thee, excellent
Theophilus:
4 21
that thou mayest know the truth of the
statements, which thou hast been taught.
5
In the days of Herod the king of Judaea, there
was a certain priest, whose name was
Zachariah, of the ministration of the house of
Abijah; and his wife was of the daughters of
Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
6 23
And they were both upright before God, and
walked in all his commandments, and in the
righteousness of the LORD, without reproach.
7
But they had no child, because Elisabeth was
barren: and they were both advanced in life.
8 25
And it occurred, that as he performed the
priestly functions in the order of his ministration
before the Lord,
9 26
according to the usage of the priesthood, it fell
to him to offer the incense. And he went into the
temple of the LORD,
10
and the whole multitude of the people were
praying without, at the time of incense.
11
And the angel of the LORD appeared to
Zachariah, standing on the right side of the altar
of incense.
12
And when Zachariah saw him, he was
agitated, and fear fell upon him.
13
And the angel said to him: Fear not,
Zachariah; for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife
Elisabeth will bear thee a son, and thou shalt
call his name John.
14
And thou wilt have joy and gladness: and
many will rejoice at his birth.
15
For he will be great before the LORD; and he
will not drink wine nor strong drink, and will be
filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's
womb.
16
And many of the children of Israel will he
convert to the LORD their God.
17
And he will go before him, in the spirit and
power of Elijah the prophet, and will turn the
heart of the fathers unto the children, and them
that are disobedient to the knowledge of the
righteous, and will prepare a perfect people for
the LORD.
18
And Zachariah said to the angel: How shall I
know this? For I am old, and my wife is
advanced in life.
The angel answered, and said to him: I am
Gabriel, who stand before God; and I am sent to
converse with thee, and to tell thee these things.
Henceforth thou wilt be dumb, and unable to
speak, until the day when these things take
place: because thou believedst not my words,
which will be fulfilled in their time.
And the people were standing and waiting for
Zachariah; and they wondered at his tarrying so
long in the temple.
22
And when Zachariah came forth, he could not
speak with them: and they understood that he
had seen a vision in the temple: and he made
many signs to them, and remained speechless.
And when the days of his ministration were
accomplished, he came to his house.
24
And it was after those days, that Elisabeth his
wife conceived. And she secluded herself five
months; and she said:
These things hath the LORD done for me, in
the days when he looked upon me to take away
my reproach among men.
And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was
sent by God into Galilee, to a city named
Nazareth,
27
to a virgin espoused to a man whose name
was Joseph, of the house of David; and the
virgin's name was Mary.
28
And the angel entered the house, and said to
her: Peace to thee, thou full of grace! The Lord
is with thee: and blessed art thou among
women.
29
And when she saw [him], she was agitated by
his speech; and she pondered, what this
salutation could mean.
30
And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary; for
thou hast found favor with God.
31
For lo, thou wilt conceive in thy womb, and
wilt bear a son, and wilt call his name Jesus.
32
He will be great, and will be called the Son of
the Most High, and the LORD God will give him
the throne of his father David.
33
And he will reign over the house of Jacob for
ever; and of his reign there will be no end.
34
And Mary said to the angel: How can this be,
as I have not known a man?
35
The angel replied, and said to her: The Holy
Spirit will come, and the power of the Most High
will overshadow thee; therefore he that is born of
thee is holy, and will be called the Son of God.
36
And lo, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, even she
too hath conceived a son in her old age; and this
is the sixth month with her who is called barren.
37
Because nothing is difficult for God.
38
Mary said: Behold, I am the handmaid of the
LORD; be it to me, according to thy word. And the
angel departed from her.
39
And Mary arose in those days, and went
hastily to the mountain [district], to a city of
Judaea;
40
and entered the house of Zachariah, and
saluted Elisabeth.
41
And it was so, that when Elisabeth heard the
salutation of Mary, the child leaped in her womb,
and she was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42
And she cried out with a loud voice, and said
to Mary: Blessed art thou among women; and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
43
And whence is this to me, that the mother of
my Lord should come to me?
44
For lo, as the voice of thy salutation fell upon
my ears, with great joy the child leaped in my
womb.
45
And happy is she that believed; for there will
be a fulfillment of those things that were told her
by the LORD.
46
And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the
LORD:
47
and my spirit rejoiceth in God the author of
my life.
48
For he hath looked upon the humble
condition of his hand maid; and lo, henceforth all
generations will ascribe blessedness to me.
49
And He that is mighty hath done for me great
things; and holy is his name.
50
And his mercy is on them that fear him, for
generations and posterities.
51
He hath wrought victory with his arm; and
hath scattered the proud in the imagination of
their heart.
52
He hath cast down the mighty from their
thrones, and hath exalted the lowly.
53
The hungry hath he satisfied with good
things, and the rich hath he sent away empty.
54
He hath aided Israel his servant, and
remembered his mercy,
55
(as he spoke with the fathers,) with Abraham
and his seed, for ever.
56
And Mary remained with Elisabeth about
three months, and returned to her home.
57
And Elisabeth's time of bringing forth arrived;
and she bore a son.
58
And her neighbors and relatives heard that
the Lord had magnified his mercy to her, and
they rejoiced with her.
59
And it occurred, that on the eighth day they
came to circumcise the child. And they called
him by the name of his father, Zachariah.
60
And his mother answered and said: Not so;
but John, shall he be called.
61
And they said to her: There is no one among
thy kindred called by that name.
62
And they made signs to his father, how he
would have him named.
63
And he asked for a tablet, and wrote, and
said: John is his name. And every one was
surprised.
64
And immediately his mouth was opened, and
his tongue; and he spoke, and praised God.
65
And fear came upon all their neighbors; and
these things were talked of in all the mountain
[district] of Judaea.
66
And all who heard, pondered them in their
heart, and said: What will this child be? And the
hand of the LORD was with him.
67
And Zachariah his father was filled with the
Holy Spirit, and prophesied, and said:
68
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath
visited his people, and wrought redemption for
them:
69
And hath raised up a horn of redemption for
us, in the house of David his servant:
70
as he spake by the mouth of his holy
prophets, who were of old,
71
that he would redeem us from our enemies,
and from the hand of all that hate us.
72
And he hath exercised his mercy to our
fathers, and hath remembered his holy
covenants,
73
and the oath that he sware to Abraham our
father, that he would grant to us,
74
to be redeemed from the hand of our
enemies; and that we should worship before
him, without fear,
75
all our days, in rectitude and uprightness.
76
And thou, child, wilt be called a prophet of the
Most High; for thou wilt go before the face of the
LORD, to prepare his way,
77
that he may give the knowledge of life to his
people, and forgiveness of their sins,
78
through the compassion of the mercy of our
God; whereby the day-spring from on high will
visit us,
79
to give light to them that sit in darkness, and
in the shadow of death; and to guide our feet
into the way of peace.
80
And the child grew, and was strengthened in
spirit. And he was in the wilderness, until the day
of his manifestation to Israel.

2:1 And in those days it occurred, that a decree
went forth from Augustus Caesar, that all the
people of his dominion should be enrolled.
2
And this enrollment was first made under the
presidency of Quirinus in Syria.
3
And everyone went to his own city to be
enrolled.
4
And Joseph also went up from Nazareth of
Galilee to Judaea, to the city of David which is
called Bethlehem, because he was of the house
and lineage of David,
5 24
with Mary his espoused, then pregnant, to be
enrolled.
6
And it was while they were there, that the days
for her to bring forth were completed.
7
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and
wrapped him in bandages, and laid him in the
stall; for they had no place where they could
lodge.
8
And there were shepherds in that region, who
abode there and kept watch of their flocks by
night.
9
And lo, the angel of God came to them, and
the glory of the LORD shone upon them: and they
feared with great fear.
10
And the angel said to them: Fear not; for,
behold I announce to you great joy, which will be
to all the world.
11
For there is born to you this day a deliverer,
who is the LORD Messiah, in the city of David
12
And this is the sign for you: Ye will find the
babe wrapped in bandages, and placed in a
stall.
13
And instantly there were seen with the angel,
the many hosts of heaven, praising God, and
saying:
14
Glory to God in the highest [heavens], and on
earth peace and good hope for men.
15
And it was so, that when the angels had gone
from them into heaven, the shepherds conferred
with one another, and said: Let us go down to
Bethlehem, and see this thing which hath
occurred, as the LORD hath made known to us.
16
And they came hastily, and found Mary and
Joseph, and the babe laid in the stall.
17
And when they saw, they made known the
information which was given to them concerning
the child.
18
And all that heard, wondered at the things
that were told them by the shepherds.
19
And Mary laid up all these things, and
pondered them in her heart.
20
And the shepherds returned glorifying and
praising God for all that they had seen and
heard, as it was told them.
21
And when the eight days for the circumcision
of the child were completed, his name was
called JESUS; as he was named by the angel,
before he was conceived in the womb.
22
And when the days of their purification were
completed, according to the law of Moses, they
carried him to Jerusalem, to present him before
the LORD:
23
(as it is written in the law of the LORD, that
every male opening the womb shall be called
holy to the LORD:)
and to offer a sacrifice, according as it is
written in the law of the LORD, A pair of turtle-
doves, or two young pigeons.
25
And there was a certain man in Jerusalem,
whose name was Simeon. This man was upright
and just, and was waiting for the consolation of
Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
26
And it had been told him by the Holy Spirit,
that he would not see death, until he should see
the Messiah of the Lord.
27
This man came, by the Spirit, into the temple;
and when his parents brought in the child Jesus,
to do for him as is commanded in the law,
28
he took him in his arms, and blessed God,
and said:
29
My Lord, now release thou thy servant in
peace, as thou hast said:
30
for lo, my eyes have seen thy mercy,
31
which thou hast prepared in the presence of
all nations,
32
a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and a
glory for thy people Israel.
33
And Joseph and his mother were astonished
at those things which were spoken concerning
him.
34
And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary
his mother: Behold, this [child] is set forth for the
fall and for the rising of many in Israel, and for a
standard of contention;
35
(and also a dart will pierce thy own soul); that
the thoughts of the hearts of many may be
disclosed.
36
And Hanna, a prophetess, the daughter of
Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher,---she also was
aged in days, and, from her maidenhood, had
lived seven years with her husband,
37
and was a widow of about eighty and four
years, and departed not from the temple, but
worshipped by day and by night with fasting and
prayer;
38
and she too stood up, in that hour, and gave
thanks to the LORD, and spoke of him to every
one that waited for the redemption of Jerusalem.
39
And when they had accomplished all things,
according to the law of the LORD, they returned
to Galilee, to their city Nazareth.
40
And the child grew, and was strengthened in
spirit, and was filled with wisdom; and the grace
of God was upon him.
41
And his people went up to Jerusalem every
year, at the feast of the passover.
42
And when he was twelve years old, they went
up to the feast, as they were accustomed.
43
And when the days were completed, they
returned: but the child Jesus remained at
Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother knew not
[of it];
44
for they supposed he was with his
companions. And when they had travelled a
day's journey, they sought him among their
people, and [inquired] of every one that knew
them.
45
And they did not find him. And they returned
again to Jerusalem, searching for him.
46
And after three days, they found him in the
temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, and
listening to them, and asking them questions.
47
And all they that heard him, were astonished
at his wisdom and his answers.
48
And when they saw him they were amazed.
And his mother said to him: My son, why hast
thou done so to us? For lo, I and thy father have
been seeking for thee with great anxiety.
49
He said to them: Why did ye seek me? Do ye
not know, that it behooveth me to be in my
Father's house?
50
But they did not comprehend the word that he
spoke to them.
51
And he went down with them, and came to
Nazareth, and was obedient to them. And his
mother laid up all these things in her heart.
52
And Jesus increased in stature, and in
wisdom, and in grace, before God and men.
3:1 And in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar, in the presidency of Pontius
Pilate in Judaea, while Herod was Tetrarch in
Galilee, and Philip his brother Tetrarch in Ituraea
and in the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias
Tetrarch of Abilene,
2
in the high priesthood of Annas and of
Caiaphas; the word of God was upon John the
son of Zachariah, in the wilderness.
3 20
And he came into all the region about the
Jordan, proclaiming the baptism of repentance
for the forgiveness of sins.
4
As it is written in the book of the discourses of
Isaiah the prophet, who said: The voice of one
crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
the LORD; and make straight paths in the plain
for our God.
5
All valleys shall be filled up, and all mountains
and hills be lowered; and the hillock shall be
levelled down, and the rough place become
smooth.
6
And all flesh shall see the life which is of God.
7
And he said to the multitudes, who came to
him to be baptized: Ye progeny of vipers, who
hath instructed you to flee from the future wrath?
8
Bring forth, therefore, fruits comporting with
repentance. And begin not to say in yourselves:
We have Abraham for our father; for I say to
you, that God can, from these stones, raise up
sons to Abraham.
9
And lo, the ax is put to the root of trees. Every
tree therefore that beareth not good fruits, is
hewed down, and falleth into the fire.
10
And the multitudes asked him, and said:
What, then, shall we do?
11
He answered and said to them: Whoever
hath two tunics, let him give [one] to him that
hath none; and whoever hath food, let him do
the same.
12
And publicans also came to be baptized. And
they said to him: Teacher, what shall we do?
13
And he said to them: Exact no more than ye
are required to exact.
14
And those serving in war inquired of him, and
said: And what shall we do? He said to them: Be
insolent to no one, and oppress no one, and let
your pay satisfy you.
15
And while the people were thinking of John,
and all pondered in their heart, whether he were
the Messiah;
16
John answered and said to them: Behold, I
baptize you with water; but after me cometh one
mightier than I, the strings of whose shoes I am
not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and with fire.
17
He holdeth his winnowing shovel in his hand,
and he will make clean his threshing floor; and
the wheat he gathereth into his garners, and the
chaff he will burn with fire not extinguished.
18
And many other things also, he taught and
proclaimed to the people.
19
But Herod the Tetrarch, because he was
reproved by John, on account of Herodias the
wife of his brother Philip, and on account of all
the evil things he had done,
added this also to them all, that he shut up
John in prison.
21
And it occurred, when all the people were
baptized, that Jesus also was baptized. And as
he prayed, the heavens were opened;
22
and the Holy Spirit descended upon him, in
the bodily likeness of a dove: and there was a
voice from heaven, which said: Thou art my
beloved Son, in whom I have delight.
23
And Jesus was about thirty years old. And he
was accounted the son of Joseph, the son of
Heli,
24
the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of
Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph,
25
the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the
son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of
Naggai,
26
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the
son of Shimei, the son of Joseph, the son of
Judah,
27
the son of Joanna, the son of Rhesa, the son
of Zorubbabel, the son of Salathiel, the son of
Neri,
28
the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of
Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,
29
the son of Joses, the son of Eliezer, the son
of Joram, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
30
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son
of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
31
the son of Melcah, the son of Mainan, the son
of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
32
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of
Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon
33
the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the
son of Hezron, the son of Pharez, the son of
Judah
34
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of
Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of
Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Salah,
36
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the
son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of
Lamech,
37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the
son of Jared, the son of Mehalaleel, the son of
Cainan,
38
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of
Adam, the son of God.
4:1 And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit,
returned from the Jordan. And the Spirit led him
into the wilderness,
2 20
forty days, to be tempted by the Calumniator.
And during those days, he ate nothing; and
when he had completed them, he was at last
hungry.
3
And the Calumniator said to him: If thou art the
Son of God, command this stone to become
bread.
4
Jesus replied, and said to him: It is written, Not
by bread only, doth man live; but by every thing
of God.
5
And Satan conducted him to a high mountain
and showed him all the kingdoms of the land, in
a little time.
6
And the Calumniator said to him: To thee will I
give all this dominion, and the glory of it, which
is committed to me, and to whom I please, I give
it:
7
if therefore thou wilt worship before me, the
whole shall be thine.
8
But Jesus replied, and said to him: It is written
Thou shalt worship the LORD thy God, and him
only shalt thou serve.
9
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him
on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If
thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down
hence:
10
for it is written, He will give his angels charge
over thee, to keep thee:
11
and in their arms will they sustain thee, lest
thou strike thy foot against a stone.
12
And Jesus replied and said to him: It is said,
Thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God.
13
And when the Calumniator had finished all his
temptations, he departed from him for a time.
14
And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit,
to Galilee; and fame concerning him spread in
all the region around them.
15
And he taught in their synagogues, and was
lauded by every one.
16
And he came to Nazareth, where he had
been brought up: and he went, as he was
accustomed, into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and rose up to read.
17
And there was delivered to him the book of
Isaiah the prophet. And Jesus opened the book,
and found the place where it is written:
18
The Spirit of the LORD is upon me; and
therefore he hath anointed me to proclaim
tidings to the poor; and hath sent me to heal the
contrite in heart, and to proclaim release to the
captives, and sight to the blind; and to send
away the contrite with forgiveness [of their sins];
19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the
LORD.
And he rolled up the book, and gave it to the
servitor, and went and sat down. And the eyes
of all in the synagogue were gazing upon him.
21
And he began to say to them: This day, is this
scripture which ye have heard, fulfilled.
22
And all bare him witness, and admired the
gracious words which proceeded from his
mouth; and they said: Is not this the son of
Joseph?
23
Jesus said to them: Perhaps, ye will speak to
me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: and
whatever we have heard of thy doing in
Capernaum, do thou here also in thy city.
24
And he said to them: Verily I say to you,
There is no prophet who is acceptable in his
own city.
25
And I tell you the truth, that there were many
widows in the house of Israel, in the days of
Elijah the prophet, when the heavens were
closed up three years and six months, and there
was a great famine in all the land:
26
but to no one of them was Elijah sent, except
to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a widow woman.
27
And there were many leprous in the house of
Israel, in the days of Elisha the prophet; but
none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the
Syrian.
28
And when they heard these things, those in
the synagogue were all filled with wrath.
29
And they rose up, and thrust him out of the
city, and brought him to the top of the hill on
which the city was built, that they might cast him
down from the rock.
30
But he passed through the midst of them, and
went away.
31
And he went down to Capernaum, a city of
Galilee; and taught them on sabbath days.
32
And they were astonished at his teaching, for
his word was authoritative.
33
And there was in the synagogue a man, in
whom was an unclean demon: and he cried out,
with a loud voice,
34
and said: Let me alone: What have I to do
with thee, Jesus, thou Nazarean? Hast thou
come to destroy us? I know thee, who thou art,
the Holy One of God.
35
And Jesus rebuked him, and said: Shut thy
mouth; and come out of him. And the demon
threw him down in the midst, and came out of
him, having not harmed him at all.
36
And wonder seized every one, and they
talked together, and said: What a word is this!
For, with authority and efficiency, he
commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come
out
37
And his fame went out into all the surrounding
region.
38
And when Jesus went out of the synagogue,
he entered the house of Simon. And the mother-
in-law of Simon was afflicted with a severe fever:
and they besought him in her behalf .
39
And he stood over her, and rebuked the
fever; and it left her. And immediately she arose
and ministered to them.
40
And when the sun was set, all those that had
sick persons, afflicted with divers diseases,
brought them to him; and he laid his hand on
every one of them, and healed them.
41
And demons went out of many, crying out
and saying: Thou art the Messiah, the Son of
God. And he rebuked them, and suffered them
not to say, that they knew him to be Messiah.
42
And at the dawn of day, he went out and
retired to a desert place. And the multitudes
sought him, and went out to him, and held him
fast, that he might not retire from them.
43
And Jesus said to them: It behooveth me to
announce the kingdom of God to other cities
also; for therefore was I sent.
44
And he preached in the synagogues of
Galilee.
5:1 And it occurred, that a multitude gathered
about him, to hear the word of God. And he was
standing by the side of the sea of Gennesaret,
2
and he saw two ships standing near the sea,
and the fishermen were gone out of them, and
were washing their nets.
3
And one of them belonged to Simon Cephas:
and Jesus entered and sat in it. And he told
them to draw off a little from the shore, into the
sea: and he seated himself, and taught the
multitude from the ship.
4
And when he ceased from speaking, he said
to Simon: Launch out into the deep, and cast
your net for a draught.
5
Simon answered, and said to him: Rabbi, all
the night we have toiled, and have caught
nothing: but, at thy bidding, I will cast the net.
6
And when they had done so, they inclosed
very many fishes, so that the net was rent.
7
And they made signs to their associates, in the
other ship, to come and help them. And when
they came, they filled both the ships, so that
they were near to sinking.
8
And when Simon Cephas saw [it], he fell
before the feet of Jesus, and said to him: I
beseech thee, my Lord, that thou leave me, for I
am a sinful man.
9
For astonishment had seized him, and all that
were with him, at the draught of fishes which
they had caught:
10
and in like manner also James and John, the
sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon.
But Jesus said: Fear thou not; henceforth thou
shalt catch men unto life.
11
And they brought the vessels to the land: and
they left all and followed him.
12
And when Jesus was in one of the cities, a
man came all full of leprosy and seeing Jesus,
he fell upon his face, and besought him, and
said to him: My Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
cleanse me.
13
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched
him, and said to him: I will [it]; be thou clean.
And immediately his leprosy went from him.
14
And he charged him: Speak to no one; but go
and show thyself to the priests, and offer the
oblation for thy purification, as Moses hath
commanded, for a testimony to them.
15
And his fame spread abroad still more: and
much people assembled to hear him, and to be
cured of their diseases.
16
And he retired into a desert, and prayed.
17
And it occurred, on one of the days when
Jesus was teaching, that Pharisees and Doctors
of the law were sitting by, who had come from all
the villages of Galilee and of Judaea, and
Jerusalem: and the power of the LORD was
present to heal them.
18
And some persons brought a paralytic man,
on a couch, and sought to bring him in, and to
place him before him.
19
And when they could not thus introduce him,
because of the multitude of the people, they
ascended to the roof, and let him down with the
couch, from the covering, into the midst, before
Jesus.
20
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to
the paralytic: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
21
And the Scribes and Pharisees began to
reason, and to say: Who is this that speaketh
blasphemy? Who can forgive sins, but God
only?
22
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to
them: What think ye in your heart?
23
Which is the easier, to say, Thy sins are
forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and walk?
24
But that ye may know, that the Son of man is
competent to forgive sins on the earth,---he said
to the paralytic: I say to thee, Arise, take up thy
couch, and go to thy home.
25
And instantly, he rose up before their eyes,
and took up his couch, and went home,
glorifying God.
26
And astonishment seized every one; and they
Praised God; and they were filled with awe, and
said: We have seen wonders today.
27
And after these things, Jesus went out and
saw a publican, named Levi, sitting among the
publicans; and he said to him: Come after me.
28
And he left every thing, and arose, and went
after him.
29
And Levi made a great entertainment for him
at his house; and there was a numerous
company of publicans and others who reclined
with them.
30
And the Scribes and Pharisees murmured,
and said to his disciples: Why do ye eat and
drink with publicans and sinners?
31
And Jesus answered and said to them: A
physician is not sought after for the well, but for
those very sick.
32
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners,
to repentance.
33
And they said to him: Why do the disciples of
John fast often, and pray, and also [those] of the
Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
34
And he said to them: Ye cannot make the
guests of the nuptial chamber fast, while the
bridegroom is with them.
35
But the days will come, when the bridegroom
will be taken up from them, and then will they
fast, in those days.
36
And he spoke a similitude to them: No one
teareth a patch from a new garment, and putteth
it to an old garment; lest he tear the new, and
the patch from the new cease to make the old
[garment] whole.
37
And no one putteth new wine into old sacks;
otherwise, the new wine will burst the sacks, and
the wine will run out, and the sacks be ruined.
38
But they put new wine into new sacks, and
both are preserved.
39
And no one drinketh old wine, and
immediately calleth for new; for he saith, The old
is the delicious.
6:1 And on a sabbath it occurred, as Jesus
walked among the tilled grounds, that his
disciples plucked ears, and rubbed them in their
hands and ate.
2
And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why
do ye that, which it is not lawful to do on the
sabbath?
3
Jesus replied, and said to them: Have ye not
read what David did, when he was hungry, he
and those with him?
4
How he entered into the house of God, and
took and ate the bread of the LORD's table, and
gave [it] to those that were with him; which it
was not lawful, except for the priests only, to
eat?
5
And he said to them: The Son of man is lord of
the sabbath.
6
And on another sabbath, he entered a
synagogue and taught. And a man was there,
whose right hand was withered.
7
And the Scribes and Pharisees watched him,
whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they
might be able to accuse him.
8 26
And as he knew their thoughts, he said to the
man with a withered hand: Rise and come into
the midst of the congregation. And when he
came and stood [there],
9
Jesus said to them: I ask you, What is it lawful
to do on the sabbath? that which is good? or
that which is evil? to save life or to destroy [it]?
10
And he looked upon them all; and [then] said
to him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched
out his hand, and it was restored like the other.
11
And they were filled with envy; and they
conferred one with another, what they should do
to Jesus.
12
And in those days, Jesus retired to a
mountain to pray; and he passed the night there,
in prayer to God.
13
And when the day dawned, he called his
disciples, and selected from them twelve, whom
he named Legates :
14
Simon whom he named Cephas, and Andrew
his brother, and James, and John, and Philip,
and Bartholomew,
15
and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the
son of Alpheus, and Simon who was called
Zelotes,
16
and Judas the son of James, and Judas
Iscariot, who became a traitor.
17
And Jesus descended with them, and stood
in the plain; and a great company of his
disciples, and a multitude of assembled people,
from all Judaea, and from Jerusalem and from
the seashore of Tyre and Sidon; who came to
hear his discourse, and to be healed of their
diseases;
18
and they who were afflicted by unclean
spirits: and they were healed.
19
And the whole multitude sought to touch him;
for there went a virtue out of him and healed
them all.
20
And he lifted his eyes upon his disciples, and
said: Blessed are ye poor; for the kingdom of
God is yours.
21
Blessed are ye that hunger now; for ye will be
satisfied. Blessed are ye that weep now; for ye
will laugh.
22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you,
and repel you, and revile you, and cast out your
names as base, for the Son of man's sake.
23
Rejoice in that day and exult, for your reward
is great in heaven; for so did their fathers to the
prophets.
24
But, woe to you that are rich; for ye have
received your consolation.
25
Woe to you that are full; for ye will hunger.
Woe to you that laugh now, for ye will weep and
mourn.
Woe to you, when men shall speak your
praise; for so did their fathers to the false
prophets.
27
And to you who hear, I say: Love your
enemies; and do favors to them that hate you;
28
and bless them that curse you; and pray for
them that drag you with violence.
29
To him that smiteth thee on thy cheek, offer
the other: and from him that taketh away thy
cloak, keep not back thy tunic.
30
To every one that asketh of thee, give thou:
and from him that taketh thy property, demand it
not.
31
And as ye would that men should do to you,
so do ye also to them.
32
For, if ye love them that love you, what
goodness is it in you? For even sinners love
those that love them.
33
And if ye do good to them that do good to
you, what goodness is it in you? For even
sinners do the same.
34
And if ye lend to one from whom ye expect
recompense, what goodness is it in you? For
sinners also lend to sinners, to receive adequate
recompense.
35
But love ye your enemies, and do them good;
and lend ye, and disappoint the hopes of no
one: and great will be your reward, and ye will
be children of the Highest; for he is kind to the
evil, and to the unthankful.
36
Be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father
is merciful.
37
Judge not, and ye will not be judged:
condemn not, and ye will not be condemned:
release, and ye will be released.
38
Give ye, and it will be given to you; in good
measure, pressed down, and running over, will
they cast into your lap. For, with what measure
ye measure, it will be measured to you.
39
And he spake a similitude to them: Can a
blind man lead a blind? Will not both fall into the
ditch?
40
No disciple is better than his teacher; for
whoever is perfect, will be like his teacher.
41
And why observest thou the straw that is in
thy brother's eye, but regardest not the beam
that is in thy own eye?
42
Or how canst thou say to thy brothers, My
brother, allow me to pluck the straw from thy
eye; when, lo, the beam that is in thy own eye,
thou regardest not. Hypocrite! first cast the
beam out thy eye, and then thy vision will be
clear to pluck the straw from thy brother's eye.
43
There is no good tree, that beareth bad fruits;
nor a bad tree, that beareth good fruits.
44
For every tree is known by its fruits. Do men
gather figs from thorn-bushes? So, neither do
they pluck grapes from brambles.
45
A good man, from the good treasure that is in
his heart, bringeth out good things: and a bad
man, from the bad treasure that is in his heart,
bringeth out bad things. For, from the
abundance of the heart, the lips speak.
46
And why call ye me, My Lord, my Lord; while
ye do not that which I command you?
47
Every one that cometh to me, and heareth my
words, and doeth them, I will show to whom he
is like:
48
He is like a man that built a house; and he
dug and went deep, and laid the foundations on
a rock: and when a flood occurred, the flood
rushed upon that house, and could not move it,
for its foundation rested on a rock.
49
But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a
man that built his house upon the earth, without
a foundation; and when the torrent rushed upon
it, it fell immediately, and the ruin of that house
was great.
7:1 And when he had finished all these
discourses in the audience of the people, Jesus
entered into Capernaum.
2 19
And the servant of a centurion, who was dear
to him, was very sick, and near to death.
3
And he heard of Jesus, and sent the Elders of
the Jews to him, and requested of him that he
would come and save the life of his servant.
4
And when they came to Jesus, they entreated
him earnestly, and said: He is worthy that thou
shouldst do this for him;
5
for he loveth our nation, and hath also built us
a house of assembly.
6 22
And Jesus went with them. And when he was
not far from the house, the centurion sent his
friends to him, and said to him: My Lord, trouble
not thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldst
come under my roof:
7
therefore I deemed myself not worthy to
approach thee myself; but speak the word only,
and my young man will be healed.
8
For I also am a man subjected to authority;
and I have soldiers under my command; and I
say to this one, Go; and he goeth: and to
another, Come; and he cometh: and to my
servant, Do this; and he doeth [it.]
9
And when Jesus heard these things, he
admired him; and he turned, and said to the
throng that followed him: I say to you, I have not
found faith like this even in Israel.
10
And they that were sent, returned to the
house; and they found the servant that had been
sick, now well.
11
And the following day, he went to a city called
Nain; and his disciples [were] with him, and a
great multitude.
12
And as he approached the gate of the city, he
saw a procession bearing a dead man, the only
son of his mother, and she a widow; and a great
company of the people of the city were with her.
13
And Jesus looked upon her, and had
compassion on her; and he said to her, Weep
not.
14
And he went, and touched the bier; and they
that bore him stood still. And he said: Young
man, I say to thee, Arise.
15
And the dead man sat up, and began to
speak: and he delivered him to his mother.
16
And awe seized all the people; and they
glorified God, and said: A great prophet hath
arisen among us, and God hath visited his
people.
17
And that saying respecting him went out
through all Judaea and all the surrounding
region.
18
And the disciples of John told him all these
things.
And John called two of his disciples, and sent
them to Jesus, and said: Art thou he that
cometh, or shall we look for another?
20
And they came to Jesus, and said to him:
John the Baptizer hath sent us to thee, and
saith: Art thou he that cometh, or shall we look
for another?
21
And in that hour he healed many persons of
their diseases, and of plagues, and of unclean
spirits, and gave sight to many blind persons.
And Jesus replied, and said to them: Go ye,
and tell John all that ye have seen and heard;
that the blind see, and the lame walk, and the
leprous are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the
dead arise, and to the poor good news is
proclaimed:
23
and blessed is he that is not stumbled in me.
24
And when John's disciples were gone, Jesus
began to say to the multitude, concerning John:
What went ye into the wilderness to see?---a
reed agitated by the wind?
25
Or if not; what went ye out to see?---a man
clad in soft raiment? Lo, they that use splendid
garments and luxuries, are in kings' palaces.
26
Or if not; what went ye out to see?---a
prophet? Yea, say I to you; and more than a
prophet.
27
[For] this is he, of whom it is written: Behold I
send my messenger before thy face, to prepare
thy way before thee.
28
I say to you, that no prophet, among those
born of women, was greater than John the
Baptizer: and yet the little one in the kingdom of
God, is greater than he.
29
And all the people that heard him, justified
God, as they had been baptized with John's
baptism.
30
But the Pharisees and Scribes rejected the
good pleasure of God, against themselves; as
they were not baptized by him.
31
To what, therefore, shall I compare this
generation? and to what are they like?
32
They are like children, that sit in the market-
place, and call to their fellows and say: We have
piped to you, and ye did not dance; we have
howled to you, and ye did not weep.
33
For John the Baptizer came, not eating
bread, and not drinking wine; and ye say: He
hath a demon.
34
The Son of man came, eating and drinking;
and ye say: Behold, a gluttonous man, and a
wine drinker, and one fond of publicans and
sinners.
35
But wisdom is justified by all her children.
36
And one of the Pharisees came, and asked
him to eat with him. And he entered the house of
the Pharisee, and reclined.
37
And there was a woman in the city, who was
a sinner; and when she learned that he reclined
in the Pharisee's house, she took an alabaster
box of perfume,
38
and stood behind him, at his feet, and wept;
and she began to bathe his feet with her tears,
and to wipe them with the hair of her head; and
she kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the
perfume.
39
And when the Pharisee that invited him, saw
it, he thought within himself, and said: If this man
were a prophet, he would know who she is, and
what is her reputation; for the woman that
toucheth him, is a sinner.
40
And Jesus answered, and said to him: Simon,
I have something to say to thee. He said to him:
Say it, Rabbi. Jesus said to him:
41
There were two debtors to a certain creditor;
the one owed him five hundred denarii, and the
other fifty denarii.
42
And as they had not the means of pay, he
released them both. Which of them, therefore
will love him most?
43
Simon replied, and said: I suppose he to
whom most was released. Jesus said to him:
Thou hast judged correctly.
44
And he turned to the woman, and said to
Simon: Seest thou this woman? I entered thy
house, and thou gavest [me] no water for my
feet; but she hath bathed my feet with her tears,
and wiped them with her hair.
45
Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman,
since she came in, hath not ceased to kiss my
feet.
46
Thou didst not anoint my head with perfume;
but she hath anointed my feet with perfumed
ointment.
47
I therefore say to thee: Her many sins are
forgiven her, for she loveth much. But he, to
whom little is forgiven, loveth little.
48
And he said to the woman: Thy sins are
forgiven thee.
49
And they that were reclining, began to say in
themselves: Who is this, that even forgiveth
sins?
50
And Jesus said to the woman: Thy faith hath
given thee life. Go, in peace.
8:1 And after these things Jesus travelled about
the cities and the villages, and proclaimed and
announced the kingdom of God. And with him
were his twelve [disciples],
2
and those women who were healed of
infirmities and of unclean spirits, Mary called
Magdalena, out of whom went seven demons,
3
and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's
steward, and Susanna, and many others, who
ministered to them of their property.
4
And when a great multitude was assembled,
and people came to him from all the cities, he
said, in similitudes:
5
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he
sowed, some fell by the side of the path, and
was trodden upon, and a bird devoured it.
6
And other fell upon a rock, and sprung up
forthwith; but, as it lacked moisture, it dried up.
7
And other fell among thorns, and the thorns
sprung up with it, and choked it.
8
And other fell on good and fair ground, and
sprung up, and bore fruits, a hundred for one.
Having said these things, he cried: He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear.
9
And his disciples asked him: what meaneth
this similitude?
10
And he said to them: To you it is given, to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but
to others, it is spoken in allegories; that, while
seeing, they may not see, and while hearing,
may not understand.
11
But this is the similitude: The seed is the word
of God.
12
And those by the side of the path, are they
that hear the word, and the enemy cometh and
taketh the word out of their heart, that they may
not believe and live.
13
And those upon the rock, are they who, when
they hear, receive the word with joy: but they
have no root in them, and their faith is
temporary, and in time of temptation they are
stumbled.
14
And that which fell among thorns, are those
who hear the word, but are choked by cares,
and by riches, and by worldly desires, and bear
no fruits.
15
And that on good ground, are those who, with
a humble and good heart, hear the word, and
retain it, and with patience bring forth fruits.
16
No one lighteth a lamp, and covereth it with a
vessel, or placeth it under a bed, but setteth it
upon a light-stand, that all who come in, may
see the light of it.
17
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be
uncovered; nor concealed, that shall not be
known and become manifest.
18
Take heed how ye hear: for to him that hath,
shall be given; and from him that hath not, shall
be taken even what he thinketh he hath.
19
And his mother and his brothers came to him,
and they could not speak with him, because of
the multitude.
20
And they say to him: Thy mother and thy
brothers stand without, and wish to see thee.
21
And he answered and said: My mother and
my brothers, are they who hear the word of God,
and do it.
22
And on a certain day Jesus embarked and
sat in a ship, he and his disciples. And he said to
them; Let us pass over to the other side of the
sea.
23
And while they were rowing, Jesus fell
asleep. And there was a tempest of wind on the
sea; and the ship was near to sinking.
24
And they came and awaked him, and said to
him: Our Rabbi, our Rabbi, we are perishing!
And he arose, and rebuked the winds and the
agitations of the water; and they ceased, and
there was a calm.
25
And he said to them: Where is your faith?
And they being in awe, wondered, and said one
to another: Who is this, that commandeth even
the winds, and the waves, and the sea; and they
obey him?
26
And they rowed on, and came to the country
of the Gadarenes, which lieth over against
Galilee.
27
And when he went out upon the land, there,
met him a man of the city, in whom had been a
demon for a long time; and he wore no clothing,
and did not reside in a house, but among the
tombs.
28
And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, and
fell down before him, and said, with a loud voice:
What have we to do with thee? Jesus, thou Son
of the exalted God. I entreat of thee, torment me
not.
29
For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit,
to come out of the man: for, of a long time he
had been held captive by him; and he had been
bound with chains, and held in fetters; but he
had burst the bonds, and had been driven by the
demon into the desert.
30
And Jesus demanded of him: What is thy
name? And he said to him: Legion: because
many demons had entered into him.
31
And they besought him, not to command
them to depart into the abyss.
32
And there was a herd of many swine grazing
on the mountain. And they besought him, that he
would permit them to enter the swine. And he
permitted them.
33
And the demons went out of the man, and
entered the swine; and the whole herd ran to a
precipice, and plunged into the sea, and were
strangled.
34
And when the herdmen saw what had
occurred, they fled, and told [it] in the cities and
the villages.
35
And the men went out to see what was done.
And they came to Jesus, and found the man, out
of whom the demons had gone, now clothed,
and modest, and sitting at the feet of Jesus; and
they were awed.
36
And they that saw [it], related to them in what
manner the demoniac was cured.
37
And the whole throng of the Gadarenes
requested him, that he would depart from them:
for great fear had seized them. And Jesus
embarked in a ship, and retired from among
them.
38
And the man, from whom the demons had
gone out, requested that he might remain with
him. But Jesus dismissed him, and said to him:
39
Return to thy home, and relate what God hath
done for thee. And he went away, and
proclaimed through all the city what Jesus had
done for him.
40
And when Jesus returned, a great multitude
received him; for all were looking for him.
41
And a man, whose name was Jairus, a chief
of the synagogue, fell down at the feet of Jesus,
and besought him to enter his house;
42
for he had an only daughter, about twelve
years old, and she was near dying. And as

Jesus went with him, a great multitude pressed
upon him.
43
And a certain woman, whose blood had
flowed twelve years, and who had expended all
her property among physicians, and could not
be cured by any one,
44
came up behind him, and touched the border
of his garment; and immediately the flow of her
blood stopped.
45
And Jesus said: Who touched me? And when
all denied, Simon Cephas and those with him
said to him: Our Rabbi, crowds press upon thee
and sayest thou, Who touched me?
46
And he said: Some one touched me; for I
perceive, that energy hath gone out from me.
47
And the woman, when she saw that she had
not escaped his notice, came trembling, and fell
down and worshipped him. And in the presence
of all the people, she declared for what cause
she had touched him, and that she was instantly
healed.
48
And Jesus said to her: Take courage, my
daughter: Thy faith hath given thee life: Go in
peace.
49
And while he was speaking, one came from
the house of the chief of the synagogue, and
said to him: Thy daughter is dead; trouble not
the teacher.
50
And Jesus heard [it], and said to the father of
the maid: Fear not; believe only, and she will
live.
51
And Jesus came to the house; and he
suffered none to go in with him, except Simon,
and James, and John, and the father and
mother of the maid.
52
And all were weeping and wailing over her.
And Jesus said: Weep not; for she is not dead,
but sleepeth
53
And they derided him, knowing that she was
dead.
54
And he put every one out, and took her by the
hand, and called, and said: Maid, arise.
55
And her spirit returned, and she instantly
arose. And he directed them to give her food.
56
And her parents were astonished: and he
charged them to tell no one what had occurred.
9:1 And Jesus called his twelve, and gave them
power and authority over all demons and
diseases, to heal [them].
2 19
And he sent them forth, to proclaim the
kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
3
And he said to them: Take nothing for the
journey, neither a staff, nor a wallet, nor bread,
nor money; neither have two tunics.
4
And into whatever house ye enter, there stay,
and thence depart.
5
And against them that receive you not, when
ye go out of that city, shake off even the dust of
your feet against them, for a testimony.
6
And the Legates went forth, and travelled
about the villages and cities, and preached and
healed everywhere.
7
And Herod the Tetrarch heard of all the things
done by him, and he was disturbed; because
some said, that John had arisen from the dead.
8
But others said, that Elijah hath appeared; and
others, that a prophet from among the ancient
prophets hath arisen.
9
And Herod said: The head of John, I have cut
off; but who is this, of whom I hear these things?
And he was desirous to see him.
10
And when the Legates returned, they
narrated, to Jesus all they had done. And he
took them aside, to the desert part of Bethsaida.
11
And when the multitude knew [it], they
followed him: and he received them, and
conversed with them respecting the kingdom of
God: and such as had need of healing, he
healed.
12
And when the day began to decline, his
disciples came near, and said to him: Send
away the multitude, that they may go to the
villages around us and to the towns, to lodge in
them, and to procure themselves food, for we
are in a desert place.
13
Jesus said to then: Give ye them to eat. And
they say: We have no more than five loaves and
two fishes; unless we go and buy food for all this
people:
14
for they were about five thousand men. Jesus
said to them: Make them recline by companies,
fifty persons in a company.
15
And the disciples did so, and made them all
recline.
16
And Jesus took the five loaves and two
fishes, and looked towards heaven, and
blessed, and brake, and gave to his disciples to
set before the multitudes.
17
And they all ate, and were satisfied: and they
took up the fragments of remains, twelve
baskets.
18
And as he was praying in private with his
disciples, he asked them, and said: Who, do the
multitudes say of me, that I am?
They answer and say to him: John the
Baptizer; others, Elijah and others, a prophet,
one of the ancient prophets arisen.
20
He said to them: But who, do ye say, that I
am? Simon answered, and said: The Messiah of
God.
21
And he chided them, and charged them, that
they should say this to no one.
22
And he said to them: The Son of man is to
suffer many things, and to be rejected by the
Elders and the chief priests and Scribes; and
they will kill him; and on the third day, he will
arise.
23
And he said before all the people: He that
would follow me, must deny himself, and take up
his cross daily, and [so] come after me.
24
For he that will preserve his life, shall lose it;
but he that shall lose his life, for my sake, will
preserve it.
25
For, what will a man be profited, if he gain the
whole world, and lose his life or be deprived [of
it]?
26
And whoever shall be ashamed of me and of
my words, of him will the Son of man be
ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his
Father, with his holy angels.
27
I tell you the truth, that there are some
standing here, who will not taste death, until they
shall see the kingdom of God.
28
And it was about eight days after these
discourses, that Jesus took Simon and James
and John, and went up a mountain to pray.
29
And while he prayed, the aspect of his
countenance was changed, and his garments
became white and brilliant.
30
And lo, two men were talking with him: and
they were Moses and Elijah,
31
who appeared in glory. And they were
conversing on his departure, which was to be
consummated at Jerusalem.
32
And Simon and those with him were
oppressed with drowsiness; and being scarcely
awake, they saw his glory, and those two men
who stood near him.
33
And when they began to retire from him,
Simon said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is delightful for us
to be here. And let us make here three booths,
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for
Elijah. But he knew not what he said.
34
And as he thus spoke, there was a cloud; and
it overshadowed them; and they were afraid,
when they saw Moses and Elijah go up into the
cloud.
35
And there was a voice from the cloud, which
said: This is my beloved Son; hear ye him.
36
And when the voice had passed, Jesus was
found to be alone.---And they kept silence, and
told no one in those days what they had seen.
37
And the next day, as they came down from
the mountain, a great multitude met them.
38
And a man from the throng cried out, and
said: Teacher, I beseech thee, turn thyself to
me. Here is my only son:
39
and a spirit cometh upon him, and he
suddenly crieth out, and gnasheth his teeth, and
foameth; and he hardly leaveth him, when he
hath crushed him.
40
And I requested thy disciples to expel him;
and they could not.
41
And Jesus answered, and said: O the
unbelieving and perverse generation! How long
shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring
hither thy son.
42
And while he was bringing him, the demon
threw him down, and convulsed him. And Jesus
rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the lad,
and delivered him to his father.
43
And they were all amazed at the majesty of
God.---And while every one admired at all that
Jesus did, he said to his disciples:
44
Lay up these words in your minds: for the
Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of
men.
45
But they understood not that speech;
because it was hidden from them, that they
should not know it: and they feared to ask him
concerning that speech.
46
And the thought arose among them, which of
them [was to be] the greatest.
47
And Jesus knew the thought of their heart:
and he took a child, and placed him near to him;
48
and said to them: Whoever receiveth a child
like this, in my name, receiveth me; and he that
receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. For he
that shall be least among you all, he will be the
great one.
49
And John answered, and said: Our Rabbi, we
saw a man casting out demons in thy name; and
we forbad him, because he doth not, with us,
follow thee.
50
Jesus said to them: Forbid not: for, whoever
is not against you, is for you.
51
And when the days for his ascension were
completed, so it was, that he set his face to go
up to Jerusalem.
52
And he sent messengers before his face; and
they went, and entered a village of the
Samaritans, to prepare [lodgings] for him.
53
And they received him not, because he had
set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
54
And when his disciples James and John saw
[it], they said to him: Our Lord, wilt thou that we
speak, and fire come down from heaven, and
consume them, as also did Elijah?
55
And he turned and rebuked them, and said:
Ye know not of what spirit ye are.
56
For the Son of man hath not come to destroy
souls; but to quicken [them]. And they went to
another village.
57
And as they went by the way, one said to
him: I will follow thee to whatever place thou
goest, my Lord.
58
Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and
the birds of heaven have coverts; but the Son of
man hath not where he may lay his head.
59
And he said to another: Come thou after me.
And he said to him: My Lord, permit me first to
go and bury my father.
60
And Jesus said to him: Allow the dead to bury
their dead; and go thou and proclaim the
kingdom of God.
61
Another said to him: I will follow thee, my
Lord; but allow me first to bid adieu to my
household, and I will come.
62
Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand to
the ox-plough, and looking backward, is fit for
the kingdom of God.
10:1 And after these things, Jesus separated
from among his disciples seventy other persons,
and sent them, two and two, before his face, to
every place and city whither he was to go.
2
And he said to them: The harvest is great, and
the laborers few: pray ye, therefore, the lord of
the harvest that he would send laborers into his
harvest.
3
Go ye: lo, I send you forth, as sheep among
wolves.
4
Take to you no purses, nor wallets, nor shoes;
and salute no man by the way.
5
And into whatever house ye enter, first say:
Peace be to this house.
6 24
And if the son of peace is there, your
salutation will rest upon it; but if not, your
salutation will return to you.
7
And remain in that house, eating and drinking
of what it affords; for the laborer is worthy of his
hire. And pass not from house to house.
8
And into whatever city ye enter, and they
receive you; eat that which set before you.
9
And heal them that are sick in it; and say to
them: The kingdom of God hath come near you.
10
And into whatever city ye enter, and they
receive you not; go out into the street, and say:
11
Even the dust of your city which adhereth to
our feet, we shake off against you: but this know
ye, that the kingdom of God hath come near to
you.
12
I say to you, that for Sodom there will be
comfort in that day, rather than for that city.
13
Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee,
Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon there had
been the mighty deeds, that were in you, they
would long ago have repented in sackcloth and
ashes.
14
But for Tyre and Sidon there will be comfort in
the day of judgment, rather than for you.
15
And thou Capernaum, that art lifted up to
heaven, shalt be brought down to hell.
16
He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that
despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that
despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
17
And the seventy whom he sent forth, returned
with great joy, and say to him: Our Lord, even
the demons were subject to us, in thy name.
18
And he said to them: I saw Satan fall, like the
lightning from heaven.
19
Behold, I give you authority to tread on
serpents, and scorpions, and on all the power of
the adversary: and nothing shall harm you.
20
Yet rejoice not in this, that the demons are
subject to you; but rejoice, that your names are
written in heaven.
21
In that hour Jesus exulted in the Holy Spirit,
and said: I thank thee, my Father, thou Lord of
heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these
things from the wise and intelligent, and hast
revealed them to babes: yes, my Father, for
such was thy good pleasure.
22
And he turned himself to his disciples, and
said to them: Every thing is committed to me by
my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is,
but the Father; or who the Father is, but the Son,
and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal
[him].
23
And he turned to his disciples, privately, and
said: Blessed are the eyes that see, what ye
see.
For I say to you, that many prophets and
kings desired to see what ye see, and did not
see [it]; and to hear what ye hear, and did not
hear [it].
25
And behold, a Scribe stood up to try him, and
said: Teacher, what must I do, to inherit eternal
life?
26
And Jesus said to him: How is it written in the
law? How readest thou?
27
He answered and said to him: Thou shalt love
the LORD thy God, with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy
mind; and thy neighbor, as thyself.
28
Jesus said to him: Thou hast said correctly;
do thus, and thou wilt live.
29
And he, being disposed to justify himself,
said: And who is my neighbor?
30
Jesus said to him: A certain man was going
down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and robbers
fell upon him, and plundered him, and smote

him, and left him with little life in him, and went
their way.
31
And a certain priest went down by that way;
and he saw him, and passed on.
32
So also a Levite came, approached the spot,
and saw him, and passed on.
33
But a Samaritan, as he travelled, came where
he was, and saw him, and took pity on him,
34
and went to him, and bound up his wounds,
and poured wine and oil on them, and placed
him upon his ass, and brought him to the inn,
and took care of him.
35
And on the morning of the [next] day, he took
out two denarii and gave to the host, and said:
Take good care of him; and if thou expendest
any more, when I return, I will repay thee.
36
Which therefore of these three, appears to
thee, to have been neighbor to him that fell into
the hands of marauders?
37
And he said: He that had pity on him. Jesus
said to him: Go, and do thou also the like.
38
And it occurred, as they travelled by the way,
that he entered a certain village, and a woman
whose name was Martha, received him at her
house.
39
And she had a sister whose name, was Mary:
and she came and seated herself at the feet of
our Lord, and listened to his discourses.
40
But Martha was occupied with much service;
and she came, and said to him: My Lord, hast
thou no concern, that my sister hath left me to
serve alone? Bid her assist me.
41
Jesus answered, and said to her: Martha,
Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about
many things:
42
yet but one thing is necessary; and Mary hath
chosen for herself the good part, which shall not
be taken from her.
11:1 And as he was praying in a certain place, it
occurred, that when he ceased, one of his
disciples said to him: Our Lord, teach us to pray,
as John also taught his disciples.
2
Jesus said to them: When ye pray, thus speak
ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallow be thy
name; thy kingdom come; thy pleasure be done,
as in heaven, so on earth;
3 22
give us daily the bread we need;
4
and remit to us our sins, for we also remit to all
that are indebted to us; and bring us not into
trials, but deliver us from evil.
5
And he said to them: Which of you shall have
a friend, that shall come to him at midnight and
say to him, My friend, lend me three cakes;
6
for a friend hath come to me from a journey,
and I have nothing to set before him?
7
And his friend within shall answer, and say to
him: Do not disturb me, for lo, the door is closed,
and my children with me in bed; I cannot rise
and give thee.
8
I say to you: If he give him not, on account of
friendship, yet on account of [his] importunity, he
will arise and give [him] as much as he asketh.
9
I say also to you: Ask, and it will be given you;
seek, and ye will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you.
10
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he
that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it
is opened.
11
For which of you being a father, if his son
shall ask him for bread, will he reach to him a
stone? Or, if he ask of him a fish, will he, instead
of a fish, reach to him a serpent?
12
Or, if he ask of him an egg, will he reach to
him a scorpion?
13
And if ye, who are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to
them that ask him?
14
And as he was casting out a demon that was
dumb, it occurred, that when the demon had
gone out, the dumb [man] conversed: and the
multitudes admired.
15
But some of them said: It is by Beelzebub,
the prince of demons, that he casteth out
demons.
16
And others, to tempt him, asked of him a sign
from heaven.
17
But Jesus, as he knew their thoughts, said to
them: Every kingdom that is divided against
itself, will become a desolation: and a house that
is divided against itself, will fall.
18
And if Satan be divided against himself, how
will his kingdom stand? since ye say, that I by
Beelzebub cast out demons.
19
And if I, by Beelzebub, cast out demons, by
whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore
will they be to you judges.
20
But if I, by the finger of God, cast out
demons, the kingdom of God hath come near to
you.
21
When a strong man armed keepeth his
doorway, his property rests securely.
But if a stronger than he come and overpower
him, he taketh away all his arms on which he
relied, and divideth the spoil of him.
23
He that is not for me, is against me; and he
that gathereth not with me, actually scattereth.
24
An unclean spirit, when he goeth out of a
man, goeth wandering in places where no water
is, in order to find rest; and, as he cannot find [it]

he saith: I will return to my habitation, from
which I came.
25
And when he cometh, he findeth it swept
clean and set in order.
26
Then he goeth and taketh seven other spirits,
worse than himself, and they enter in and dwell
there; and the last state of that man is worse
than the first.
27
And while he was saying these things, a
certain woman from the crowd, lifted up her
voice, and said to him: Blessed is the womb that
carried thee, and the breasts that nursed thee.
28
He said to her: Blessed are they who hear the
word of God, and keep it.
29
And when multitudes were assembled, he
began to say: This evil generation seeketh a
sign; and no sign will be given it, but the sign of
Jonah the prophet.
30
For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so
also will the Son of man be a sign to this
generation.
31
The queen of the south will stand up in the
judgment with the men of this generation, and
will condemn them; for she came from the other
side of the earth, to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, and lo, one superior to Solomon is
here.
32
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the
judgment with this generation, and will condemn
it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
and lo, one superior to Jonah is here.
33
No one lighteth a lamp, and putteth it in a
secret place, or under a bushel, but upon a light-
stand; that they who come in, may see its light.
34
The lamp of thy body is thy eye. Therefore,
when thy eye is sound, thy whole body will be
enlightened; but if it be bad, thy body also will be
dark.
35
See to it, therefore, lest the light that is in
thee, be darkness.
36
For if thy whole body be enlightened, and no
part in it be dark, the whole will be luminous, as
if a lamp enlightened thee by its radiance.
37
And while he was speaking, a certain
Pharisee requested him to dine with him: and he
went in, and reclined.
38
And the Pharisee noticing him, wondered that
he did not previously baptize before dinner.
39
And Jesus said to him: Now ye Pharisees
make clean the exterior of the cup and the dish;
but your interior is full of extortion and
wickedness.
40
Ye deficient in understanding! did not he who
made the exterior, make also the interior?
41
But, give ye alms from what ye possess; and
lo, every thing will be clean to you.
42
But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint
and rue, and every pot-herb; but pass over
justice and the love of God. Now ye ought to do
these things, and not to omit those.
43
Woe to you, Pharisees! who love the chief
seats in the synagogues, and a salutation in the
streets.
44
Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye are like graves that are
unknown, and men walk over them and do not
know [it].
45
And one of the Scribes replied, and said to
him: Teacher, while saying these things, thou
reproachest us also.
46
And he said: Woe to you also! ye Scribes,
who lade men with heavy burdens; yet ye
yourselves will not touch those burdens with one
of your fingers.
47
Woe to you! who build the sepulchres of the
prophets, whom your fathers slew.
48
Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the
deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and
ye build their sepulchres.
49
Therefore hath wisdom said: Lo, I will send to
them prophets and legates; and some of them
they will persecute and slay;
50
that from this generation may be required, the
blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed
since the world was created;
51
from the blood of Abel, to the blood of
Zachariah who was slain between the temple
and the altar. Yea, say I to you: It will be
required of this generation.
52
Woe to you, Scribes; for ye have taken away
the keys of knowledge: ye yourselves enter not,
and them that are entering ye hinder.
53
And when he had said these things to them,
the Scribes and Pharisees began to be
offended, and became angry, and carped at his
discourses,
54
and practised many wiles upon him, seeking
to catch some thing from his lips, that they might
accuse him.
12:1 And when great multitudes were
assembled by myriads, so that they trod one
upon another, Jesus began to say to his
disciples: First of all, beware for yourselves of
that leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2
For there is nothing hidden, which will not be
revealed; nor concealed, that will not be known.
3
For whatever ye speak in the dark, will be
heard in the light; and what in secret chambers,
ye whisper in the ear, will be proclaimed on the
house-tops.
4 23
And to you, my friends, I say: Be not afraid of
them that kill the body, and afterwards have
nothing more they can do.
5
But I will show you, of whom to be afraid: of
him who, after he hath killed, hath authority to
cast into hell. Yea, say I to you: be afraid of him.
6 25
Are not five sparrows sold for two assarii? and
not one of them is forgotten before God.
7 26
And as for you, the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. Fear not, therefore; for ye are
superior to many sparrows.
8
And I say to you, that every one that shall
confess me before men, the Son of man will also
confess him before the angels of God.
9 28
But he that shall deny me before men, shall
himself be denied before the angels of God.
10
And every one that shall speak a word
against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him:
but he that shall reproach the Holy Spirit, it will
not be forgiven him.
11
And when they shall bring you into the
synagogues, before chiefs and men in authority,
be not anxious how ye shall make defence, or
what ye shall say;
12
for the Holy Spirit will, in that hour, instruct
you what to say.
13
And one of the assembly said to him:
Teacher, tell my brother, to divide the
inheritance with me.
14
But Jesus said to him: Man, who established
me a judge and distributor over you?
15
And he said to his disciples: Beware of all
avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of
riches.
16
And he spoke to them a similitude: The land
of a certain rich man brought forth produce in
abundance.
17
And he considered with himself, and said:
What shall I do; for I have not where I can store
up my produce?
18
And he said : This will I do; I will pull down my
storehouses, and build them larger; and there
will I store up all my corn and my good things:
19
and I will say to my soul: My soul, thou hast
good things in abundance, which are stored up
for many years; take thy ease; eat, drink, and
live in pleasure.
20
But God said to him: Thou void of reason!
This night, thy soul will be required of thee; and
to whom will belong these things provided by
thee?
21
Such is he that layeth up treasures for
himself, and is not rich in God.
22
And he said to his disciples: Therefore I tell
you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall
eat; nor for your body, what ye shall put on.
For the life is more important than food, and
the body than raiment.
24
Consider the ravens, which sow not, nor
reap, nor have cellars and storehouses; yet God
provideth them food. How much more important
now are ye, than the birds!
And which of you, by taking pains, can add
one cubit to his stature?
And if ye are impotent for that which is least,
why are ye anxious about the rest?
27
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they toil
not, nor do they spin. Yet I say to you, that not
even Solomon in all his glory, was clothed like
one of these.
And if God so clothe the herb, which to-day
exists in the field, and to-morrow falls into the
oven, how much more you, ye little in faith?
29
And inquire not, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor let your mind wander upon these
things.
30
For all these things the people of the world
seek after; and your father knoweth that, for you
also, these things are needful.
31
But seek ye the kingdom of God, and all
these things will be added to you.
32
Fear not, little flock; for your Father is
disposed to give you the kingdom.
33
Sell your property, and give alms: make for
yourselves bags that do not become old, and a
treasure that is not transient, in the heavens;
where no thief approacheth, and no moth eateth.
34
For where your treasure is, there also will
your heart be.
35
Let your loins be girded, and your lamps
burning.
36
And be ye like persons who are waiting for
their lord, when he shall return from the house of
feasting, that, when he shall come and knock,
they may open to him immediately.
37
Happy are those servants, whom their lord,
when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily I say
to you: He will gird his loins, and make them
recline, and will pass around and serve them.
38
And if in the second watch, or in the third, he
shall come and so find [them], happy are those
servants.
39
And this know ye, that if the lord of the house
had known at what watch the thief would come,
he would have been awake and would not have
suffered his house to be broken into.
40
Therefore be ye also ready; for at an hour
that ye think not, the Son of man cometh.
41
Simon Cephas saith to him: Our Lord,
speakest thou this similitude to us, or also to all
men?
42
Jesus said to him: Who then is that faithful
and wise steward, whom his lord will place over
all his domestics, to give them their portion in
due time?
43
Happy is that servant whom his lord, when he
cometh, shall find so doing.
44
Verily I say to you: He will place him over all
his possessions.
45
But if that servant shall say in his heart, My
lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to
smite the servants and the maidens of his lord;
and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunk;
46
the lord of that servant will come in a day he
thinketh not, and in an hour he knoweth not, and
will cut him in two; and will assign him his
portion with them that are unfaithful.
47
And the servant that knew his lord's pleasure,
and did not prepare for him according to his
pleasure, shall be beaten with many [stripes].
48
But he that knew not, yet did that which
deserved stripes, shall be beaten with few
stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, from
him will much be required; and to whom much is
committed, the more will be required at his hand.
49
I have come to cast fire on the earth; and I
would, that it already burned.
50
And I have a baptism to be baptized with; and
I am much pressed until it be accomplished.
51
Suppose ye, that I have come to produce
tranquillity on the earth? I tell you, No: but
division.
52
For from this time, there will be five [persons]
in one house, who will be divided, three against
two, and two against three.
53
For a father will be divided against his son,
and a son against his father; a mother against
her daughter, and a daughter against her
mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-
law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-
in-law.
54
And he said to the multitudes: When you see
a cloud rising out of the west, ye at once say:
Rain is coming; and it is so.
55
And when a south wind bloweth, ye say: It will
be hot: and it is so.
56
Ye hypocrites, ye know how to distinguish the
aspect of the heavens and the earth; and why
can ye not distinguish the present time?
57
And why do ye not, of yourselves, judge
correctly?
58
And when thou goest with thy adversary to
the ruler, while on the way, make effort to be
released by him; lest he bring thee to the judge
and the judge deliver thee to the exactor, and
the exactor cast thee into prison.
59
For verily I say to thee: Thou wilt not come
out thence, until thou pay the last mite.
13:1 And at that time, some came and told him
of those Galileans, whose blood Pilate had
mingled with their sacrifices.
2
And Jesus replied, and said to them: Suppose
ye, that these Galileans were sinners beyond all
the Galileans, because this occurred to them?
3
No. And I say to you, That all of you also,
unless ye repent, will likewise perish.
4
Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in
Siloam fell, and slew them, suppose ye, that
they were sinners beyond all the men inhabiting
Jerusalem?
5
No. And I say to you, That except ye repent,
ye like them will all of you perish.
6
And he spoke this similitude: A man had a fig-
tree that was planted in his vineyard: and he
came, seeking fruits upon it, and found none.
7
And he said to the cultivator: Lo, these three
years, I have come seeking fruits on this fig-tree,
and I find none. Cut it down: why should it
cumber the ground?
8
The cultivator said to him: My Lord, spare it
this year also, until I shall work about it, and
manure it.
9
And if it bear fruits, [well;] and if not, thou wilt
cut it down: why should it live?
10
And when Jesus was teaching in one of the
synagogues, on the sabbath,
11
a woman was there who had had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years; and she was bent over,
and could not straighten herself at all.
12
And Jesus saw her, and called her, and said
to her: Woman, thou art released from thy
infirmity.
13
And he put his hand upon her; and
immediately she straightened her self up, and
glorified God.
14
And the chief of the synagogue, being angry
that Jesus had healed on the sabbath,
answered, and said to the multitude: There are
six days, on which it is lawful to work; on them
come ye, and be healed, and not on the sabbath
day.
15
But Jesus replied, and said to him: Thou
hypocrite! Doth not every one of you, on the
sabbath, loose his ox or his ass from the stall,
and lead him to water?
16
And this woman, a daughter of Abraham,
whom the Calumniator hath bound, lo, these
eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from
this bond on the sabbath day?
17
And when he had said these things, all those
that stood up against him were ashamed: and all
the people rejoiced in all the miracles that were
wrought by his hand.
18
And Jesus said: To what is the kingdom of
God like? and with what shall I compare it?
19
It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took
and cast into his garden; and it grew, and
became a large tree; and a bird of heaven made
her nest in its branches.
20
Jesus said again: With what shall I compare
the kingdom of God?
21
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid
in three seahs of meal, until the whole was
fermented.
22
And he travelled through the villages and
cities, teaching and going towards Jerusalem.
23
And a person asked him, whether they were
few who would have life?
24
And Jesus said to them: Strive to enter the
narrow gate: for I say to you, many will seek to
enter, and will not be able.
25
From the time that the lord of the house shall
rise and close the door, then ye will stand
without, and knock at the door; and ye will begin
to say: Our Lord, our Lord, open to us and he
will answer, and say: I tell you, I know you not,
whence ye are.
26
And ye will begin to say: We have eaten and
drunken before thee; and thou hast taught in our
streets.
27
And he will say to you: I know you not,
whence ye are: depart from me, ye doers of
falsehood.
28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,
when ye will see Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of
God; and yourselves will be thrust out.
29
And they will come from the east and from
the west, and from the south and from the north,
and will recline in the kingdom of God.
30
And lo, there are last that will be first, and
there are first that will be last.
31
On the same day came some of the
Pharisees, and said to him: Go, depart hence;
for Herod purposeth to kill thee.
32
Jesus said to them: Go ye and tell that fox,
Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures,
to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I
shall be consummated.
33
But I must labor to-day and to-morrow, and
on the following day I will go; because it cannot
be, that a prophet should perish away from
Jerusalem.
34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the
prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee;
how many times would I have gathered thy
children, as a hen that gathereth her young
under her wings, and ye would not?
35
Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
For I say to you: Ye will not see me, until ye will
say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the LORD.
14:1 And it occurred, that, as he entered the
house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread,
on the sabbath day, they watched him.
2
And lo, a dropsical man was before him.
3
And Jesus answered, and said to the Scribes
and Pharisees: Is it lawful to heal on the
sabbath?
4
And they were silent. And he took him, and
healed him, and dismissed him.
5
And he said to them: Which of you, if his son
or his ox fall into a pit on the sabbath day, doth
not immediately lift and draw him out?
6
And they could give him no answer to that.
7
And he spoke a similitude to the guests that
were present, as he noticed how they chose
places on the highest couches.
8
When thou art invited by any one to a house of
feasting, go not and recline on the highest
couch; lest there should be invited there, one
more honorable than thou;
9
and he that invited both him and thee come
and say to thee, Give place to this man; and
thou be ashamed, when thou risest, and takest a
lower couch.
10
But when thou art invited, go and recline on
the lowest [couch]; that when he who invited
thee come, he may say to thee: My friend, come
up higher and recline. And thou wilt have honor,
before all that recline with thee.
11
For, every one that exalteth himself, will be
humbled: and every one that humbleth himself,
will be exalted.
12
And he said to him that invited him: When
thou makest a dinner or a supper, invite not thy
friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy relatives, nor
thy rich neighbors; lest they also invite thee, and
thou have this recompense.
13
But when thou makest a feast, invite the poor,
the maimed, the lame, the blind.
14
And thou wilt be blessed. For they cannot
recompense thee; but thy recompense will be at
the resurrection of the just.
15
And when one of those reclining heard these
things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall
eat bread in the kingdom of God.
16
Jesus said to him: A certain man made a
great supper, and invited many.
17
And at the time for supper, he sent his
servant to say to those invited: Lo, every thing is
ready for you; come.
18
And they all to a man, began to excuse
themselves. The first said to him: I have bought
a field, and am constrained to go out and see it.
I pray thee, allow me to be excused.
19
Another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen,
and I go to inspect them. I pray thee, allow me to
be excused.
20
Another said: I have married a wife, and on
this account I cannot come.
21
And the servant came, and told his lord these
things. Then the lord of the house was angry:
and he said to his servant, Go out quickly into
the market-places and streets of the city, and
bring in hither the poor, and the diseased, and
the lame, and the blind.
22
And the servant said: My lord, it is done as
thou commandedst; and still there is room.
23
And the lord said to his servant: Go out to the
by-paths, and among the hedges, and constrain
them to come in; that my house may be filled.
24
For I declare to you, that not one of those
men that were invited, shall taste of my supper.
25
And when great multitudes were travelling
with him, he turned himself, and said to them:
26
He that cometh to me, and hateth not his
father and his mother, and his brothers and his
sisters, and his wife and his children, and his
own life also, cannot become a disciple to me.
27
And he that doth not take up his cross and
come after me, cannot become a disciple to me.
28
For, which of you, wishing to build a tower,
doth not first sit down and compute the expense,
whether he have the means to complete it?
29
lest, when he hath laid the foundation, and is
unable to finish, all that see it begin to deride
him;
30
and say: This man began to build, and was
unable to finish.
31
Or what king, that is going to contend in battle
with his neighbor king, doth not first consider,
whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet
him that is coming against him with twenty
thousand?
32
and if not; while he is yet far from him, he
sendeth envoys, and sueth for peace.
33
So every one of you who doth not give up all
his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
34
Salt is a good thing: but if the salt itself hath
become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted?
35
It is fit for neither the earth, nor the dunghill.
They cast it away.---He that hath ears to hear,
let him hear.
15:1 And publicans and sinners came to him, to
hear him.
2
And the Scribes and Pharisees murmured,
and said: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth
with them.
3
And Jesus spoke to them this similitude:
4
What man among you, that hath a hundred
sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the
ninety and nine in the desert, and go and seek
for that which is lost, until he find it?
5
And when he findeth it, he rejoiceth, and
taketh it upon his shoulders;
6
and he cometh home, and he calleth together
his friends and neighbors, and saith to them:
Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep that
was lost.
7
I say to you, that there will thus be joy in
heaven, over one sinner that repenteth, more
than over ninety and nine just ones, to whom
repentance was not necessary.
8
Or what woman is there, who, if she have ten
drachmas, and lose one of them, doth not light a
lamp, and sweep the house, and search for it
carefully, until she find it?
9
And when she hath found it, she calleth
together her friends and neighbors, and saith to
them: Rejoice with me, for I have found my
drachma that was lost.
10
I say to you, That there will thus be joy,
before the angels of God, over one sinner that
repenteth.
11
And Jesus said to them again: A certain man
had two sons.
12
And his younger son said to him: My father,
give me the portion that falleth to me from thy
house. And he divided to them his property.
13
And after a few days, the younger son
collected together all that fell to him, and went to
a distant place and there squandered his
property, by living in dissipation.
14
And when he had consumed all that he had,
there occurred a great famine in that place; and
he began to be in want.
15
And he went and connected himself with one
of the citizens of that place: and he sent him into
the field to tend swine.
16
And he longed to fill his belly with those pods
which the swine ate: and no one gave to him.
17
And when he came to himself, he said: How
many hired servants are now at my father's
house, who have bread enough, and I am here
perishing with hunger.
18
I will arise and go to my father, and say to
him: My father, I have sinned against heaven,
and before thee;
19
and am no longer worthy to be called thy son.
Make me like one of thy hired servants.
20
And he arose and went towards his father.
And he was yet at a distance, when his father
saw him; and he pitied him, and ran, and fell
upon his neck and kissed him.
21
And his son said to him: My father, I have
sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am
not worthy to be called thy son.
22
But his father said to his servants: Bring forth
the best robe, and clothe him, and put a ring on
his hand, and supply him with shoes.
23
And bring forth and slay the fatted bullock;
and let us eat, and be merry.
24
For, this my son was dead, and is alive; he
was lost and is found. And they began to be
merry.
25
But his elder son was in the field; and as he
came and drew near to the house, he heard the
sound of the singing of many.
26
And he called to one of the boys, and asked
him what it meant.
27
And he said to him: Thy brother hath come;
and thy father hath killed the fatted bullock,
because he hath received him in health.
28
And he was angry, and would not go in: and
his father went out and entreated him.
29
And he said to his father: Lo, these many
years have I labored in thy service, and never
transgressed thy command; and thou never
gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with
my friends.
30
But for this thy son, when he had dissipated
thy property with harlots, and came [home], thou
hast slain the fatted bullock for him.
31
His father said to him: My son, thou hast
been ever with me, and all that I have, is thine.
32
But it was proper for us to be merry, and to
rejoice; because this thy brother was dead, and
is alive; he was lost, and is found.
16:1 And he spoke a parable to his disciples.
There was a certain rich man, who had a
steward; and accusations were brought to him of
him, that he squandered his property.
2 19
And his lord called him, and said to him: What
is this that I hear of thee? Render to me an
account of thy stewardship; for thou canst no
longer be my steward.
3
And the steward said with himself: What shall I
do, since my lord is about to take from me the
stewardship? To dig, I am unable; and to
become a beggar, I am ashamed.
4
I know what to do, that, when I am put out of
the stewardship, they may receive me to their
houses.
5
And he called each one of his lord's debtors;
and he said to the first, How much owest thou to
my lord?
6
And he said to him, One hundred measures of
oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill, and sit
down quickly, and write Fifty measures.
7
And he said to another: And how much owest
thou to my lord? And he said to him, One
hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him: Take
thy bill, and sit down, and write Eighty cors.
8
And our Lord praised the unrighteous steward,
for having acted sagaciously: for the children of
this world are more sagacious than the children
of light, in this their generation.
9
And I also say to you: Make to yourselves
friends, with this unrighteous mammon; so that
when it is finished, they may receive you to their
everlasting tabernacles.
10
He that is faithful in the little, is also faithful in
the much; and he that is unjust in the little, is
also unjust in the much.
11
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the
reality?
12
And if ye have not been found faithful in that
which is not yours, who will give to you that
which is yours?
13
There is no servant, who can serve two lords.
For, either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will honor the one and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
14
And the Pharisees, when they heard all these
things, because they loved money, derided him.
15
And Jesus said to them: Ye are such as
justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth
your heart: for that which is exalted among men,
is abominable before God.
16
The law and the prophets were until John:
since then, the kingdom of God is proclaimed,
and every one presseth it to enter in.
17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass
away, than for one letter to pass from the law.
18
Whoever putteth away his wife, and taketh
another, committeth adultery; and whoever
taketh her that is put away, committeth adultery.
And there was a certain rich man, who was
clothed in fine linen and scarlet, and passed
every day in splendid luxury.
20
And there was a certain poor man, whose
name was Lazarus; and he was laid at the gate
of the rich man, smitten with ulcers.
21
And he desired to fill his belly with the
fragments that fell from the rich man's table: and
the dogs also came and licked his ulcers.
22
And so it was, that the poor man died; and
angels transported him to Abraham's bosom.
The rich man also died, and was buried.
23
And being tormented in hell, he raised his
eyes from afar off, and saw Abraham, and
Lazarus in his bosom.
24
And he called with a loud voice, and said:
Abraham, my father, have pity on me; and send
Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and moisten my tongue; for, lo, I am
tormented in this flame.
25
And Abraham said to him: My son,
remember, that thou receivedst thy good things
in thy lifetime, and Lazarus his evil things: and
now, behold he is here at rest, and thou art
tormented.
26
And with all these, there is a great barrier
between us and you; so that they who would
pass from here to you, cannot; neither [can they]
pass from there to us
27
He said to him: I pray thee, therefore, my
father, that thou wouldst send him to my father's
house;
28
for I have five brothers; that he may go and
protest to them; lest they also come to this place
of torment.
29
Abraham said to him: They have Moses and
the prophets, let them hear them.
30
But he said to him: No, my father Abraham:
but if one shall go to them from the dead, they
will repent.
31
Abraham said to him: If they hear not Moses
and the prophets, they will not believe, though
one should rise from the dead.
17:1 And Jesus said to his disciples: It cannot
be, but that offences will come: but woe to him,
by whom they come.
2
Better for him were it, if a millstone were
suspended to his neck, and he cast into the sea,
than that he should cause one of these little
ones to stumble.
3
Take heed to yourselves.---If thy brother
transgress, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive
him.
4
And if he shall offend against thee seven times
in a day, and, seven times in a day, shall turn
himself to thee, and say, I repent; forgive him.
5 24
And the Legates said to our Lord: Increase our
faith.
6
He said to them: If ye had faith like a grain of
mustard seed, ye might say to this mulberry-
tree, Be thou torn up by the roots, and be thou
planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
7
Which of you, having a servant driving a yoke
of oxen, or tending sheep, will say to him when
he cometh from the field, Pass on at once, and
recline for supper?
8
But he will say to him: Prepare for me what I
may sup upon, and gird thy loins and serve me,
until I have eaten and drunken; and afterwards
thou shalt eat and drink.
9
Hath he thanks for him, because the servant
did what was commanded him? I think not.
10
So also ye, when ye have done all the things
commanded you, say: We are unprofitable
servants, for we have done only what we were
obligated to do.
11
And it occurred as Jesus advanced towards
Jerusalem, that he passed among the
Samaritans into Galilee.
12
And when he drew near to enter a certain
village, there met him ten leprous men; and they
stood at a distance,
13
and raised their voice, and said: Our Rabbi,
Jesus, have compassion upon us.
14
And when he had looked upon them, he said
to them: Go, show yourselves to the priests. And
as they were going, they were cleansed.
15
And one of them, when he saw that he was
cleansed, returned, and with a loud voice,
glorified God.
16
And he fell on his face, at the feet of Jesus,
and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.
17
And Jesus answered, and said: Were they
not ten who were cleansed? Where are the
nine?
18
Have they so gone as not to come and give
glory to God; except this one, who is of another
nation?
19
And he said to him; Arise, and go: thy faith
hath given thee life.
20
And as [some] of the Pharisees asked him,
When the kingdom of God would come; he
answered, and said to them: The kingdom of
God will not come with observables.
21
And they will not say: Behold, here it is! or,
Behold, it is there! For lo, the kingdom of God is
within you
22
And he said to his disciples: The days will
come, when ye will long to see one of the days
of the Son of man, and ye will not see [them].
23
And if they shall say to you: Lo, here he is! or,
Lo, there he is! go not forth.
For, as the lightning darteth from the
heavens, and illuminateth all beneath the
heavens; so will the Son of man be, in his day.
25
But, previously, he is to suffer many things,
and to be rejected by this generation.
26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be
in the days of the Son of man.
27
They ate and drank, they took wives and
were given to husbands, until the day that Noah
entered the ark; and the flood came, and
destroyed every one.
28
And again, as it was in the days of Lot; they
ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and
built.
29
But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, the
LORD rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and
destroyed them all.
30
Thus will it be, in the day when the Son of
man shall be revealed.
31
In that day, let him that is on the house-top,
and his goods in the house, not come down to
take them: and let him that is in the field, not
return [after what is] behind him.
32
Remember Lot's wife.
33
He that desireth to preserve his life, will lose
it; and he that will lose his life, shall preserve it.
34
I tell you, that, in that night, two will be in one
bed; one will be taken, and the other left.
35
And two females will be grinding together;
one will be taken, and the other left.
36
Two men will be in the field; one will be taken,
and the other left.
37
They answered, and said to him: Whither, our
Lord? He said to them: Where the body is, there
will the eagles assemble themselves.
18:1 And he spoke to them a similitude also,
that men should pray at all times, and not
become weary.
2
There was a judge in a certain city, who feared
not God, and regarded not men.
3
And there was a certain widow in that city; and
she came to him, and said: Vindicate me against
my adversary.
4 22
And he would not, for a long time: but
afterwards, he said to himself: Though I fear not
God, and regard not men,
5
yet, because this widow troubleth me, I will
vindicate her; that she may not be always
coming and troubling me.
6
And our Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge
saith.
7
And will not God, much more, vindicate his
chosen, who call upon him by day and by night;
and have patience with them?
8
I tell you, He will vindicate them speedily. Yet
the Son of man will come; and will he find faith
on the earth?
9 27
And he spake this similitude, against certain
persons, who had confidence in themselves that
they were righteous, and despised every one.
10
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the
one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11
And the Pharisee stood by himself, and
prayed thus: God, I thank thee that I have not
been like the rest of men, rapacious, oppressive,
and adulterous; nor like this publican.
12
But I fast twice in a week, and tithe all I
possess.
13
And the publican stood afar off, and would
not even lift his eyes to heaven, but smote upon
his breast, and said: God, be merciful to me, a
sinner.
14
I say to you, that this [man] went down to his
house justified, rather than the Pharisee. For
every one that exalteth himself, will be humbled;
and every one that humbleth himself, will be
exalted.
15
And they brought to him infants, that he might
touch them: and his disciples saw them, and
rebuked them.
16
But Jesus called them, and said to them:
Suffer little children to come to me, and forbid
them not; for of those that are like them, of such
is the kingdom of heaven.
17
Verily I say to you, That he who shall not
receive the kingdom of God, as a little child, will
not enter it.
18
And one of the chiefs asked him, and said to
him: Good Teacher, what shall I do, that I may
inherit eternal life?
19
Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me,
good? For, there is none good, except one; God.
20
Thou knowest the commandments: Thou
shalt not kill; and thou shalt not commit adultery;
and thou shalt not steal; and thou shalt not
testify a false testimony; honor thy father and thy
mother.
21
He said to him: All these have I kept, from my
childhood.
And when Jesus heard these [words], he said
to him: One thing is lacking to thee: go, sell all
that thou hast, and give to the poor; and thou
wilt have a treasure in heaven; and come after
me.
23
And he, when he heard these [words], was
dejected; for he was very rich.
24
And when Jesus saw that he was dejected,
he said: How difficult [it is], for those that have
wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!
25
It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a
needle, than a rich man the kingdom of God.
26
They who heard [it], said to him: Who then
can have life?
And Jesus said: Those things which, with
men, cannot be, with God, can be.
28
Simon Cephas said to him: Lo, we have left
every thing, and come after thee.
29
Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you: There
is no man, who hath left houses, or parents, or
brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the
kingdom of God,
30
that shall not receive manifold in the present
time, and, in the coming world, eternal life.
31
And Jesus took his twelve, and said to them:
Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and all
the things written in the prophets, concerning the
Son of man, will be fulfilled.
32
For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles;
and they will mock him, and spit in his face;
33
and will scourge him, and will treat him with
ignominy, and will kill him; and, the third day, he
will arise.
34
But not one of these things, did they
understand; but this subject was hidden from
them, and they knew not the things told to them.
35
And as they came near to Jericho, a blind
man was sitting by the side of the way, begging.
36
And he heard the noise of the multitude that
passed, and inquired what it was.
37
They say to him: Jesus the Nazarean is
passing by.
38
And he called out, and said: Jesus, Son of
David, have mercy on me.
39
And they that went before Jesus rebuked
him, that he might be silent. But he cried out the
more, Son of David, have mercy on me.
40
And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be
called to him. And when he came to him, he
asked him,
41
and said to him: What wilt thou, that I do for
thee? And he said: My Lord, that I may see.
42
And Jesus said to him: See thou; thy faith
hath vivified thee.
43
And immediately he saw. And he followed
after him, and glorified God. And all the people
who beheld, gave glory to God.
19:1 And as Jesus entered and passed through
Jericho,
2
[there was] a certain man, whose name was
Zaccheus, who was rich, and chief of the
publicans;
3
and he wished to see Jesus, who he was; and
could not, on account of the crowd; because
Zaccheus was small in stature.
4
And he ran forward of Jesus, and climbed a
wild fig-tree, in order to see him; for he was to
pass that way.
5 23
And when Jesus came to the place, he saw
him, and said to him: Make haste and come
down, Zaccheus; for I must be at thy house to-
day.
6
And he hastened, and came down, and
received him with gladness.
7
And when they all saw [it], they murmured,
and said: He hath gone in to be guest with a
man that is a sinner.
8
And Zaccheus stood up, and said to Jesus:
Behold, my Lord, the half of my riches I give to
the poor; and to every man, whom I have
wronged in any thing, I restore fourfold.
9
Jesus said to him: This day, life is to this
house; for he also is a son of Abraham.
10
For the Son of man came, to seek and to
vivify that which was lost.
11
And when they heard these things, he
proceeded to utter a similitude; because he was
near to Jerusalem, and they supposed that the
kingdom of God was to be soon developed.
12
And he said: A certain man of high birth was
going to a distant place, to obtain royalty, and
return again.
13
And he called his ten servants, and gave
them ten pounds: and he said to them, Traffic
until I come.
14
But the inhabitants of his city hated him; and
they sent envoys after him, saying: We wish this
man not to reign over us.
15
And when he had obtained the royalty, and
had returned, he commanded those servants to
be called, to whom he had committed his
money; that he might know what each of them
had gained by trading.
16
And the first came, and said: My Lord, thy
pound hath gained ten pounds.
17
He said to him: Well done, good servant! As
thou hast been faithful over a little, thou shalt
have authority over ten towns.
18
And the second came, and said: My lord, thy
pound hath produced five pounds.
19
He said likewise to him: Thou also shalt have
authority over five towns.
20
And another came, and said: My lord, lo, this
is thy pound, which hath been with me, laid up in
fine linen.
21
For I was afraid of thee, because thou art a
hard man, and takest up that which thou layedst
not down, and reapest that which thou sowedst
not.
22
He said to him: Out of thy own mouth will I
judge thee, thou evil servant. Thou knewest me,
that I am a hard man, and that I take up what I
laid not down, and reap what I sowed not!
Why didst thou not put my money into the
broker's hands, that when I came, I might have
demanded it with interest?
24
And he said to them that stood before him:
Take from him the pound, and give it to him with
whom are the ten pounds.
25
They say to him: Our lord, there are with him
ten pounds.
26
He said to them: I tell you, that to every one
that hath, will be given; and from him that hath
not, even what he hath will be taken away.
27
But as for those my enemies, who would not
have me to reign over them, bring them and slay
them before me.
28
And when Jesus had spoken these things, he
went forward, to go to Jerusalem.
29
And when he arrived at Bethphage and
Bethany, near to the mount called the place of
Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
30
and said to them: Go ye to the village that is
over against us, and as ye enter [it], ye will find a
colt tied, on which no man ever rode; loose [him]
and bring [him].
31
And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose
him? say to him: Our Lord needeth him.
32
And they went who were sent, and they
found, as he said to them.
33
And as they loosed the colt, the owner of him
said to them: Why do ye loose that colt?
34
And they said: Because our Lord needeth
him.
35
And they brought him to Jesus. And they cast
their garments upon the colt, and set Jesus
upon him.
36
And as he went, they spread their garments
in the way.
37
And when he came near to the descent of the
place of Olives, the whole multitude of the
disciples began to rejoice, and to praise God,
with a loud voice, for all the mighty deeds which
they had seen.
38
And they said: Blessed be the king, that
cometh in the name of the LORD: peace in
heaven, and glory on high.
39
And some of the Pharisees from among the
crowd, said to him: Rabbi, rebuke thy disciples.
40
He said to them: I tell you, that, if these
should be silent, the stones would cry out.
41
And as he drew near, and beheld the city, he
wept over it:
42
and said: O, hadst thou known the things that
are of thy peace, at least in this thy day: but now
they are hidden from thy eyes.
43
For the days will come upon thee, when thy
enemies will encompass thee, and besiege thee
on every side.
44
And they will destroy thee, and thy children
within thee; and will not leave in thee one stone
upon another; because thou knewest not the
time of thy visitation.
45
And when he entered the temple, he began to
expel those who bought and sold in it.
46
And he said to them: It is written, My house is
a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of
robbers.
47
And he taught daily in the temple: and the
chief priests and Scribes and Elders of the
people, sought to destroy him.
48
But they found not, what they could do to him;
for all the people hung upon him to hear him.
20:1 And on one of those days, as he was
teaching the people in the temple, and
preaching, the chief priests and Scribes, with the
Elders, came upon him,
2
and said to him: Tell us, by what authority thou
doest these things? And who is it, that gave thee
this authority?
3
Jesus answered, and said to them: I also will
ask you a word, and tell ye me.
4
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or
from men?
5
And they reasoned with themselves, and said:
If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, And
why did ye not believe him?
6
But if we say, From men; all the people will
stone us; for they are persuaded that John was
a prophet.
7
And they said to him: We do not know,
whence it was.
8
Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell you, by
what authority I do these things.
9
And he began to utter this similitude to the
people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and
leased it to cultivators, and went abroad for a
long time.
10
And in time, he sent his servant to the
cultivators, that they might give him of the fruits
of the vineyard. But the cultivators beat him, and
sent him away empty.
11
And again he sent another servant; and him
also they beat, and treated with rudeness, and
sent empty away.
12
And again he sent the third. And they
wounded him, and cast him out.
13
The lord of the vineyard said: What shall I
do? I will send my dear son. Perhaps they will
look upon him, and be ashamed.
14
But when the cultivators saw him, they
reasoned with themselves, and said: This is the
heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance
will be ours.
15
And they cast him out of the vineyard, and
slew him. What therefore will the lord of the
vineyard do to them?
16
He will come, and destroy those cultivators,
and will lease the vineyard to others. And when
they heard [it], they said: This shall not be.
17
And he looked upon them, and said: What is
that which is written, The stone, which the
builders rejected, is become the chief corner
stone?
18
And whoever shall fall upon this stone, will be
broken; and on whomsoever it shall fall, it will
crush him in pieces.
19
And the chief priests and Scribes sought to
lay hands on him, at that time; but they were
afraid of the people; for they knew, that he
spoke this similitude against them.
20
And they sent to him spies, who feigned
themselves righteous men, that they might
insnare him in discourse, and deliver him up to a
court, and to the authority of the president.
21
And they questioned him, and said to him:
Teacher, we know that thou speakest and
teachest correctly, and hast no respect of
persons, but teachest the way of God in truth.
22
Is it lawful for us to pay head-money to
Caesar, or not?
23
But he perceived their craftiness, and said:
Why tempt ye me?
24
Show me a denarius. Whose is this image
and superscription upon it? They said to him,
Caesar's.
25
Jesus said to them: Then, give to Caesar
what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.
26
And they could not catch from him a word [of
accusation] before the people: and they were
surprised at his answers, and were silent.
27
And some of the Sadducees, who say there
is no resurrection, came and questioned him,
28
and said to him: Teacher, Moses wrote to us,
that if a man's brother die, who had a wife
without children, his [surviving] brother shall take
his wife, and raise up seed to his [deceased]
brother.
29
Now, there were seven brothers; and the first
took a wife, and died without children.
30
And the second took her to wife; and he died
without children.
31
And again, the third took her, and in like
manner also all the seven; and they died, and
left no children.
32
At last, the woman likewise died.
33
In the resurrection, therefore, of which of
them will she be the wife, for the seven took
her?
34
Jesus said to them: The children of this world
take wives, and wives are given to husbands.
35
But they who are worthy of that world, and of
the resurrection from the dead, do not take
wives, nor are wives given to husbands.
36
Neither can they die any more; for they are as
the angels, and are the children of God,
because they are children of the resurrection.
37
But that the dead will arise, even Moses
showed; for, at the bush, he maketh mention,
while he saith: The LORD, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38
Now God is not [the God] of the dead, but of
the living; for they all live to him.
39
And some of the Scribes answered, and said
to him: Teacher, thou hast spoken well.
40
And they did not again venture to question
him, on any matter.
41
And he said also to them: How do the Scribes
say of Messiah, that he is the son of David?
42
And David himself said, in the book of
Psalms: The LORD said to my Lord, seat thyself
at my right hand,
43
until I shall place thy foes under thy feet.
44
If David, therefore, called him, My Lord; how
is he his son?
45
And while all the people heard, he said to his
disciples:
46
Beware of the Scribes, who choose to walk in
long robes, and love a salutation in the streets,
and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the
chief couches at suppers:
47
who eat up the houses of widows, under
pretence that they prolong their prayers. They
will receive a greater condemnation.
21:1 And Jesus looked upon the rich, who cast
their oblations into the treasury.
2
And he saw also a certain poor widow, who
cast in two mites.
3
And he said: Truly I say to you, that this poor
widow hath cast in more than any one.
4
For all they, from what was superfluous to
them, have cast into the receptacle of oblations
to God; but she, from her penury, hath cast in all
that she possessed.
5
And when some spoke of the temple, as
adorned with goodly stones and oblations, Jesus
said to them:
6
[As for] these things, on which ye gaze, the
days will come, in which there will not be left a
stone upon a stone, that is not cast down.
7
And they questioned him, and said: Teacher,
when will these things be? And what is the sign
that they are near to take place?
8
And he said to them: See, that ye be not
deceived; for many will come in my name, and
will say: I am Messiah and the time is near. But
go ye not after them.
9
And when ye shall hear of wars and
commotions, be not afraid; for these things are
previously to take place, but the end is not yet
come.
10
For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom;
11
and great earthquakes will occur in several
places, and famines, and pestilences; and there
will be terrors, and trepidations, and great signs
from heaven will be seen, and there will be great
tempests.
12
But before all these things, they will lay hands
upon you, and will persecute you, and will
deliver you up to councils and to prison, and will
arraign you before kings and governors, on
account of my name.
13
But it will be to you for a testimony.
14
And settle it in your hearts, that ye will not
previously seek instruction for making a
defence.
15
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your enemies will be unable to
withstand.
16
And your parents, and your brothers, and
your relatives, and your friends, will deliver you
up, and cause some of you to die.
17
And ye will be hated by every one, on
account of my name.
18
But a hair of your head shall not perish.
19
And by your patience, will ye preserve your
souls.
20
And when ye shall see Jerusalem with an
army encompassing it, then know ye, that its
destruction draweth nigh.
21
Then let them who shall be in Judaea, flee to
the mountain [district]; and let them, who are in
the midst of it, flee away; and those in the fields,
not enter it.
22
For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all
that is written.
23
But woe to them that are with child, and to
them that nurse children, in those days; for then
will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon
this people.
24
And they will fall by the edge of the sword,
and be carried captive to every place. And
Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles,
until the times of the Gentiles shall be
completed.
25
And there will be signs in the sun, and in the
moon, and in the stars; and distress of nations
on the earth; and clasping of hands, from
astonishment at the noise of the sea;
26
and dismay that driveth out the souls of men,
from fear of that which is to come on the earth;
and the powers of heaven will be moved.
27
And then will they see the Son of man coming
in the clouds, with much power, and with great
glory.
28
And when these things shall begin to be, take
courage, and lift up your heads, for your
deliverance draweth nigh.
29
And he uttered a similitude to them. Look at
the fig-tree, and all the trees.
30
When they bud forth, ye at once understand
from them that summer approacheth.
31
So also, when ye shall see all these things
take place, know ye that the kingdom of God is
near.
32
Verily I say to you, That this generation will
not pass away, until all these things occur.
33
Heaven and earth will pass away; but my
word will not pass away.
34
Take heed to yourselves, that your hearts be,
at no time, stupefied by gluttony and ebriety and
worldly care; and so that day come upon you
unawares.
35
For, like a hunter's snare, it will spring upon
all them that dwell upon the face of the whole
land.
36
Be ye therefore vigilant, at all times, and
prayerful; that ye may be worthy to escape the
things that are to take place, and may stand
before the Son of man .
37
And, in the daytime he taught in the temple,
and at night he went out and lodged in the
mount, called the Place of Olives.
38
And all the people came early to him in the
temple, to hear his discourse.
22:1 And the feast of unleavened cakes, which
is called the passover, drew near.
2
And the chief priests and Scribes sought how
they might kill him, for they were afraid of the
people.
3
And Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot,
who was of the number of the twelve.
4
And he went and conferred with the chief
priests and Scribes, and the military
commanders of the temple, how he might betray
him to them.
5
And they were glad, and covenanted to give
him money.
6
And he promised them, and sought
opportunity to betray him to them, in the
absence of the multitude.
7 26
And the day of unleavened cakes arrived, on
which it was customary for the passover to be
slain.
8 27
And Jesus sent Cephas and John, and said to
them; Go, prepare for us the passover, that we
may eat it.
9 28
And they said to him: Where wilt thou, that we
prepare?
10
He said to them: Lo, when ye enter the city,
there will a man meet you, bearing a vessel of
water. Go after him;
11
and where he entereth, say ye to the lord of
the house: Our Rabbi saith, Is there a place of
refreshment, in which I may eat the Passover,
with my disciples?
12
And lo, he will show you a large upper room
that is furnished; there prepare ye.
13
And they went, and found as he had said to
them: and they made ready the passover.
14
And when the time arrived, Jesus came and
reclined; and the twelve Legates with him.
15
And he said to them: I have greatly desired to
eat this passover with you, before I suffer.
16
For I say to you, That henceforth I shall not
eat it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
17
[And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and
said: Take this, and divide it among you.
18
For I say to you, That I shall not drink of the
product of the vine, until the kingdom of God
7
shall come.]
19
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and
brake, and gave to them, and said: This is my
body, which is given for your sakes. This do ye,
in remembrance of me.
20
And in like manner also concerning the cup,
after they had supped, he said: This cup is the
new testament in my blood, which, for your
sakes, is poured out!
21
But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth
me is on the table.
22
And the Son of man goeth, as it was
determined; but woe to that man, by whom he is
betrayed.
23
And they began to inquire among
themselves, which of them it was, that would do
this.
24
And there was contention also among them,
who among them would be greatest.
25
And Jesus said to them: The kings of the
nations, are their lords; and those exercising
authority over them, are called benefactors.
7 46
Luke 22:18 - Verses 17 and 18, are absent in all
MSS. of the Peshito, Eastern and Western.
But ye, not so: but he that is great among
you, must be as the least; and he that is chief,
as the servitor.
For, which is the greater, he that reclineth, or
he that serveth? Is not he that reclineth? But I
am among you, as he that serveth.
Ye are they who have continued with me in
my trials:
29
and I promise to you, as my Father hath
promised to me, a kingdom:
30
that ye may eat and drink at the table of my
kingdom, and may sit on thrones, and judge the
twelve tribes of Israel.
31
And Jesus said to Simon: Simon, lo, Satan
hath desired to sift thee, as wheat:
32
but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith may
not fail. And thou also, in time, turn; and confirm
thy brethren.
33
And Simon said to him: My Lord, with thee I
am ready, both for prison and for death.
34
Jesus said to him: I tell thee, Simon, the cock
will not crow this day, until thou hast three times
denied that thou knowest me.
35
And he said to them: When I sent you without
purses, without wallets and shoes, lacked ye
any thing? They say to him: Nothing.
36
He said to them: Henceforth, let him that hath
a purse, take it; and so likewise a wallet. And let
him that hath no sword, sell his garment, and
buy himself a sword.
37
For I say to you, That this also, which was
written, must be fulfilled in me: I shall be
numbered with transgressors. For, all that
relates to me, will be fulfilled.
38
And they said to him: Our Lord, lo, here are
two swords. He said to them: They are sufficient.
39
And he went out, and proceeded, as was his
custom, to the mount of the place of Olives; and
his disciples followed him.
40
And when he arrived at the place, he said to
them: Pray ye, that ye enter not into temptation.
41
And he retired from them, about a stone's
throw; and kneeled down, and prayed,
42
and said: Father, if it please thee, let this cup
pass from me. Yet not my pleasure, but thine, be
done.
43
And there appeared to him an angel from
heaven, who strengthened him.
44
And as he was in fear, he prayed earnestly;
and his sweat was like drops of blood; and it fell
on the ground.
45
And he arose from his prayer, and came to
his disciples: and he found them sleeping, from
sorrow.
And he said to them: Why sleep ye? Arise,
and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
47
And while he was speaking, lo, a multitude,
and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve,
came at their head. And he came up to Jesus,
and kissed him. For he had given them this sign:
Whom I shall kiss, he it is.
48
Jesus said to him: Judas, is it with a kiss thou
betrayest the Son of man?
49
And when they that were with him, saw what
occurred, they said to him: Our Lord, shall we
smite them with the sword?
50
And one of them smote a servant of the high
priest, and took off his right ear.
51
And Jesus answered and said: Sufficient,
thus far. And he touched the ear of him that was
smitten, and healed him.
52
And Jesus said to those who had come upon
him, the chief priests and Elders and military
captains of the temple: Have ye come out
against me, as against a robber, with swords,
and with clubs, to take me?
53
I was with you daily in the temple, and ye laid
not hands upon me. But this is your hour, and
the reign of darkness.
54
And they took him, and conducted him to the
house of the high priest. And Simon followed
after him, at a distance.
55
And they kindled a fire in the middle of the
court, and sat around it; and Simon also sat
among them.
56
And a certain maid saw him sitting at the fire,
and she looked upon him, and said: This man
also was with him.
57
But he denied, and said: Woman, I have not
known him.
58
And a little after, another [person] saw him,
and said to him: Thou too art one of them. And
Cephas said: I am not.
59
And an hour after, another contended and
said: Certainly, this man also was with him, for
he likewise is a Galilean.
60
Cephas said: Man, I know not what thou
sayest. And immediately, while he was
speaking, the cock crew.
61
And Jesus turned, and looked upon Cephas.
And Simon remembered the word of our Lord,
which he spoke to him: Before the cock shall
crow, thou wilt deny me three times.
62
And Simon went out, and wept bitterly.
63
And the men who had taken Jesus, insulted
him, and blinded him,
64
and smote him on his face, and said:
Prophesy thou, who smote thee?
65
And many other things they revilingly uttered,
and spoke against him.
66
And when the day dawned, the Elders and
chief priests and Scribes assembled together;
and they led him to the place of their meeting,
67
and said to him: If thou art the Messiah, tell
us. He said to them: If I tell you, ye will not
believe in me.
68
And if I should ask you, ye will not return me
an answer; nor will ye release me.
69
From this time, the Son of man will sit on the
right hand of the majesty of God.
70
And they all said: Thou art then, the Son of
God? Jesus said to them: Ye say that I am.
71
They say: What further need have we of
witnesses? For we have heard from his own
mouth.
23:1 And the whole company of them arose, and
carried him before Pilate.
2
And they began to accuse him, and said: We
have found this man seducing our people, and
forbidding to pay the capitation money to
Caesar, and declaring himself to be king
Messiah.
3
And Pilate interrogated him, and said to him:
Art thou king of the Jews? He said to him: Thou
hast said.
4
And Pilate said to the chief priests and the
company: I find no crime upon this man.
5
And they vociferated, and said: He raiseth
disturbance among our people, by teaching in all
Judaea, commencing from Galilee, and quite to
this place.
6
And Pilate, when he heard the name Galilee,
inquired if the man were a Galilean.
7
And having learned that he was from under
Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod; for he
was at Jerusalem on those days.
8
And Herod rejoiced greatly when he saw
Jesus, for he had been desirous to see him for a
long time, because he had heard many things of
him, and he hoped to see some sign from him.
9
And he asked him many questions; but Jesus
gave him no reply.
10
And the chief priests and Scribes stood up,
and accused him vehemently.
11
And Herod and his warriors contemned him.
And when he had mocked him, he clothed him in
a purple robe, and sent him to Pilate.
12
And on that day, Pilate and Herod became
friends to each other; for there had previously
been enmity between them.
13
And Pilate called the chief priests and the
rulers of the people,
14
and said to them: Ye have brought this man
before me, as a disturber of your people; and lo,
I have examined him before you, and I find in

the man no crime, among all that ye charge
upon him.
15
Neither yet Herod: for I sent him to him, and
lo, nothing deserving death hath been done by
him.
16
I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17
For it was a custom, that he should release
one at the festival.
18
And all the company vociferated, and said:
Away with this man; and release to us
Barabbas.
19
He was one who had been thrown into prison,
on account of a sedition and murder which had
occurred in the city.
20
And Pilate, being disposed to release Jesus,
conversed with them again.
21
But they cried out, and said: Crucify him;
crucify him.
22
And he said to them the third time: But, what
evil hath he done? I find no crime in him
deserving of death. I will scourge him, therefore,
and release him.
23
But they were urgent, with a loud voice; and
demanded of him, that they might crucify him.
24
And Pilate decreed, that their request be
granted.
25
And he released to them him, who for
sedition and murder had been cast into prison,
for whom they petitioned; and he delivered up
Jesus to their pleasure.
26
And as they led him away, they seized Simon
the Cyrenian, coming from the fields. and laid
upon him the cross, to bear [it] after Jesus.
27
And there followed after him a great multitude
of people; and those women [also] who wailed
and lamented over him.
28
And Jesus turned to them, and said to them:
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but
weep rather for yourselves, and for your
children.
29
For lo, the days are coming, in which they will
say: Happy the barren, and the wombs that
never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.
30
Then will they begin to say to the mountains,
Fall upon us! and to the hills, Cover us!
31
For if they do these things in a green tree,
what will be in the dry?
32
And there went along with him two others,
malefactors, to be crucified.
33
And when they came to a certain place which
is called a Skull, they crucified him there; and
the two malefactors, the one on his right hand,
and the other on his left.
34
And Jesus said: Father, forgive them; for they
know not what they do. And they divided his
garments, casting a lot upon them.
35
And the people stood and looked on; and the
rulers also derided him, and said: He quickened
others; let him quicken himself, if he is the
Messiah, the chosen of God.
36
And the soldiers like wise mocked him,
coming to him and offering him vinegar,
37
and saying to him: If thou art the king of the
Jews, quicken thyself.
38
And there was likewise a superscription over
him, written in Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew:
THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39
And one of the malefactors who were
crucified with him, reproached him, and said: If
thou art the Messiah, rescue thyself, and rescue
us.
40
But his fellow [Malefactor] rebuked him, said
to him: Art thou not afraid even of God, seeing
thou art under the same sentence?
41
And we justly; for we have a retribution
according to our deserts, and according to our
deeds; but nothing hateful hath been done by
him.
42
And he said to Jesus: My Lord, remember
me, when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43
Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, That
this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
44
And it was about the sixth hour; and darkness
was over all the land, until the ninth hour.
45
And the sun was darkened, and the curtain of
the door of the temple was rent through its
middle.
46
And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said:
My Father, into thy hand I commit my spirit.
Thus he spake, and expired.
47
And when the centurion saw what occurred,
he glorified God and said: Certainly, this was a
righteous man.
48
And all the multitudes who had assembled at
this spectacle, on seeing what occurred,
returned, smiting upon their breasts.
49
And there were standing at a distance, all
they that knew Jesus, and those women who
came with him from Galilee; and they beheld
these things.
50
And there was a certain man, whose name
was Joseph, a counsellor, from Ramath a city of
Judaea, who was a good man and righteous;
51
and he had not consented to their decision
and deed; and he was waiting for the kingdom of
God.
52
This man went to Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus.
53
And he took it down, and wrapped it in a
winding-sheet of linen; and laid it in an
excavated sepulchre, in which no one had
hitherto been laid.
54
And it was the day of preparation, and the
sabbath began to dawn.
55
And those women who came with him from
Galilee, approached, and viewed the sepulchre,
and the manner in which the body was
deposited.
56
And they returned, and prepared perfumes
and aromatics; and they rested on the sabbath,
as it is commanded.
24:1 And on the first day of the week, in the
morning, while it was yet dark, they came to the
sepulchre, and brought the aromatics they had
prepared. And there were other women with
them.
2
And they found the stone rolled from the
sepulchre.
3
And they entered, and found not the body of
Jesus.
4 23
And as they wondered at this, behold, two
men stood opposite them; and their raiment was
effulgent.
5 24
And they were in fear, and bowed their faces
to the ground. And the men said to them: Why
seek ye the living among the dead?
6 25
He is not here; he is risen. Remember how he
conversed with you, when he was in Galilee,
7
and said, That the Son of man was to be
delivered into the hands of sinful men, and to be
crucified, and to rise on the third day.
8
And they remembered his words.
9 27
And they returned from the sepulchre, and
related all these things to the eleven, and to the
rest.
10
Now they were Mary Magdalena, and
Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the
others with them, who related these things to the
Legates.
11
And these words appeared in their eyes as
dreams: and they believed them not.
12
But Simon arose, and ran to the sepulchre,
and looked in, and saw the linen lying by itself:
and he went away wondering in himself at what
had occurred.
13
And lo, two of them, on the same day, were
going to a village named Emmaus, distant sixty
furlongs from Jerusalem.
14
And they talked together of all that had
occurred.
15
And as they conversed, and questioned each
other, Jesus came, and drew near, and walked
with them.
16
And their eyes were held, that they did not
recognize him.
17
And he said to them: What are these
discourses, which ye hold with each other, as ye
walk and are sad?
18
And one of them, whose name was Cleopas,
answered and said to him: Art thou only a
stranger in Jerusalem, that thou knowest not the
things that have occurred there in these days?
19
He said to them: What things? They say to
him: In regard to Jesus of Nazareth, a man who
was a prophet, and mighty in discourse and in
action, before God, and before all the people.
20
And the chief priests and Elders delivered
him up to a sentence of death, and crucified him.
21
But we expected that he was to deliver Israel.
And lo, three days [have passed], since all these
things occurred.
22
And moreover, certain women of ours
astonished us; for they went early to the
sepulchre;
and as they did not find the body, they came
and said to us: We saw angels there, and they
said that he is alive.
And also some of us went to the sepulchre;
and they found, as the women reported; but him
they saw not.
Then Jesus said to them: O deficient in
understanding, and slow of heart to believe all
the things that the prophets uttered.
26
Were not these things to be; that the Messiah
should suffer and that he should enter into his
glory?
Then he began from Moses, and from all the
prophets, and expounded to them concerning
himself from all the scriptures.
28
And they drew near to the village to which
they were going; and he made them feel, as if
he would go to a more distant place.
29
And they urged him, and said to him: Tarry
with us, for the day inclineth towards dark. And
he went in to remain with them.
30
And it occurred, while he reclined with them,
that he took bread, and blessed, and brake, and
gave to them.
31
And instantly, their eyes were opened, and,
they knew him. And he took himself from them.
32
And they said one to another: Did not our
8
heart burn within us, while he talked with us by
the way, and explained to us the scriptures?
33
And they arose, the same hour, and returned:
to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven
assembled, and those with them,
8
Luke 24:32 - The printed copies read, was burning;
but an old MS. at Oroomiah reads, was heavy, or
dull.
34
who were saying: Certainly, our Lord hath
risen; and he hath appeared to Simon.
35
And they also related what occurred by the
way, and how he became known to them, when
he broke bread.
36
And while they were talking of these things,
Jesus stood in the midst of them, and said to
them: Peace be with you! It is I; be not afraid.
37
And they were in trepidation and fear, for they
supposed they saw a spirit.
38
Jesus said to them: Why are ye agitated?
And why do imaginations arise in your hearts?
39
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is
myself. Handle me, and know; for a spirit hath
not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40
And as he said thus, he showed them his
hands and his feet.
41
And while they still believed not, for their joy,
and were astonished; he said to them: Have ye
here any thing to eat?
42
And they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and
of honeycomb.
43
And he took, [and] ate before them.
44
And he said to them: These are the things
which I said to you while I was with you, That all
things written of me, in the law of Moses and in
the prophets and in the psalms, must be fulfilled.
45
Then he opened their mind to understand the
scriptures.
46
And he said to them: Thus it is written, and
thus it was right for Messiah to suffer, and rise
from the dead on the third day;
47
and that, in his name, repentance for the
remission of sins should be preached among all
nations, and that the commencement be at
Jerusalem.
48
And ye are the witnesses of these things.
49
And I will send upon you the promise of my
Father. But remain ye at Jerusalem until ye shall
be clothed with energy from on high.
50
And he led them out as far as Bethany, and
lifted his hands, and blessed them.
51
And it occurred, while he blessed them, that
he was separated from them, and ascended to
heaven.
52
And they worshipped him, and returned to
Jerusalem with great joy.
53
And they were continually in the temple,
praising and blessing God. Amen.
The Proclamation of John the Herald
1:1 In the beginning, was the Word; and the
Word was with God; and the Word was God.
2
He was in the beginning with God.
3 24
Every thing was by his hand; and without him,
was not any thing whatever that existed.
4 25
In him was life; and the life was the light of
man.
5
And this light shineth in the darkness; and the
darkness apprehended it not.
6
There was a man sent from God, whose name
was John.
7 27
He came for testimony, to bear witness
concerning the light.
8 28
He was not himself the light, but [came] to
bear witness concerning the light.
9 29
The true light was that, which enlighteneth
every man who cometh into the world.
10
He was in the world; and the world was by his
hand; and the world did not know him.
11
He came to his own [people]; and his own
[people] received him not.
12
But such as received him, to them gave he
the prerogative to be children of God; [even] to
them that believe on his name;
13
who are born, not of blood, nor of the
pleasure of the flesh, nor of the pleasure of man,
but of God.
14
And the: Word became flesh, and
tabernacled with us: and we saw his glory, a
glory as of the only begotten from the Father,
that he was full of grace and truth.
15
John testified of him, and cried, and said:
This is he, of whom I said, That he cometh after
me, and is before me; for he was prior to me.
16
And of his plenitude have we all received,
and grace for grace.
17
For the law was given by the hand of Moses;
but the reality and grace was by the hand of
Jesus Messiah.
18
No man hath ever seen God; the only
begotten God, he who is in the bosom of his
Father, he hath declared [him].
19
And this is the testimony of John, when the
Jews of Jerusalem sent to him priests and
Levites, to ask him, Who art thou?
20
And he confessed, and denied not, but
confessed I am not the Messiah.
21
And they asked him again: Who then? Art
thou Elijah? And he said: I am not. Art thou a
prophet? And he said, No.
22
And they said to him: Who art thou? that we
may give answer to them that sent us. What
sayest thou of thyself?
23
He said: I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Make smooth the way of the LORD;
as said the prophet Isaiah.
And they who were sent, were of the
Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said to him: Why
then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Messiah,
nor Elijah, nor a prophet?
26
John answered, and said to them; I baptize
with water; but among you standeth one, whom
ye do not know.
He it is that cometh after me, and was before
me, whose shoe-strings I am not worthy to untie.
These things occurred in Bethany, where
John was baptizing.
The day after, John saw Jesus coming
towards him, and said: Behold, the Lamb of
God, that beareth the sin of the world.
30
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a
man, who is before me, for he was prior to me.
31
And I knew him not; but that he might be
known to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing
with water.
32
And John testified, and said: I saw the Spirit
descend from heaven, as a dove, and rest upon
him.
33
And I did not know him; but he who sent me
to baptize with water, he said to me, On whom
thou seest the Spirit descend, and rest upon
him, he baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.
34
And I saw; and I testify, that this is the Son of
God.
35
And the next day, John was standing, and
two of his disciples.
36
And he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and
said: Behold, the Lamb of God!
37
And his two disciples heard him when he said
[it], and they went after Jesus.
38
And Jesus turned, and saw them coming
after him, and he said to them: What seek ye?
They said to him: Our Rabbi, where stayest
thou?
39
He said to them: Come, and see. And they
came and saw where he lodged; and they were
with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
40
And one of those who heard John and went
after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon.
41
He first saw Simon his brother, and said to
him: We have found the Messiah.
42
And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus
looked upon him, and said Thou art Simon the
son of Jona; thou shalt be called Cephas.
43
The next day, Jesus was disposed to depart
for Galilee: and he found Philip and said to him,
Come after me.
44
And Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Simon.
45
And Philip found Nathaniel, and said to him:
We have found him, of whom Moses wrote in
the law, and the prophets, Jesus the son of
Joseph, who is of Nazareth.
46
Nathaniel said to him: Can there be any good
thing from Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come,
and see.
47
And Jesus saw Nathaniel coming towards
him, and said of him: Behold a real Israelite, in
whom is no deceit.
48
Nathaniel said to him: Whence knowest thou
me? Jesus said to him: Before Philip called thee
when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.
49
Nathaniel answered, and said to him: Rabbi;
thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of
Israel.
50
Jesus said to him: Because I said to thee,
that I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest
thou? Thou wilt see greater things than these.
51
He said to him: Verily, verily, I say to you,
That hereafter ye will see heaven opened, and
the angels of God ascending and descending
unto the Son of man.
2:1 And on the third day there was a feast in
Cana, a city of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus
was there.
2
And also Jesus and his disciples were invited
to the feast.
3
And the wine fell short: and his mother said to
Jesus: They have no wine.
4
Jesus said to her: What is [in common] to me
and thee? Not yet hath my hour come.
5 24
His mother said to the waiters: Whatever he
saith to you, do [it].
6 25
And there were there six waterpots of stone,
set for the purification of Jews, containing each
two or three quadrantalia.
7
Jesus said to them: Fill those water-pots with
water. And they filled them to the top.
8
He said to them: Draw now, and carry to the
master of the feast. And they carried.
9 2
And when the master of the feast tasted the
water that had become wine, and did not know
whence it came, although the waiters knew, as
they had filled the pots with water, the master of
the feast called the bridegroom,
10
and said to him: Every man first bringeth
forward the good wine, and when they are
satiated, then that which is inferior; but thou hast
kept the good wine till now.
11
This is the first sign, which Jesus wrought at
Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory: and
his disciples believed on him.
12
Afterwards he went down to Capernaum, he
and his mother and his brothers and his
disciples; and they were there a few days.
13
And the pass over of the Jews drew near;
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14
And he found in the temple those who sold
beeves and sheep and doves, and the money-
changers sitting [there].
15
And he made himself a whip from a cord, and
turned them all out of the temple, and the sheep
and the beeves and the money-changers; and
he poured out their money, and overset their
tables:
16
and he said to them that sold doves, Take
away these things; and make not my Father's
house a house of traffic.
17
And his disciples remembered, that it is
written: The zeal of thy house hath devoured
me.
18
But the Jews replied, and said to him: What
sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these
things?
19
Jesus answered, and said to them: Demolish
this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.
20
The Jews said to him: Forty and six years,
this temple was building; and wilt thou build it
again in three days?
21
But he spake of the temple of his body.
22
And when he was arisen from the dead, his
disciples remembered, that he spoke this: and
they believed the scriptures, and the word that
Jesus spake.
23
And while Jesus was in Jerusalem, at the
feast of the passover, many believed on him,
because they saw the signs he wrought.
But Jesus did not confide himself to them;
because he knew all men:
And he needed not that any one should
testify to him respecting any man; for he himself
knew what is in man.
3:1 And there was a man of the Pharisees there,
whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews.
And he came to Jesus by night, and said to
him: Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent
from God; for no one can work those signs
which thou workest, unless God be with him.
3
Jesus replied, and said to him: Verily, verily, I
say to thee, That, unless a man be born anew,
he cannot behold the kingdom of God.
4 23
Nicodemus said to him: How can an old man
be born? Can he enter a second time into his
mother's womb and be born?
5
Jesus replied, and said to him Verily, verily, I
say to thee, That, unless a man be born of water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God.
6 26
That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and
that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
7
Be not surprised that I said to thee, Ye must
be born anew.
8 27
The wind bloweth where it chooseth; and thou
hearest its sound, but knowest not whence it
cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one,
that is born of the Spirit.
9
Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How
can these things be?
10
Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a
teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11
Verily, verily, I say to thee: We speak, what
we know; and we testify to what we have seen;
but ye receive not our testimony.
12
If I have spoken to you of things on earth, and
ye believe not; how will ye believe, if I speak of
things in heaven?
13
And no one hath ascended to heaven, but he
that descended from heaven, the Son of man
who is in heaven.
14
And as Moses elevated the serpent in the
wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15
that every one who believeth in him, may not
perish, but may have life eternal.
16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on
him, should not perish, but should have life
eternal.
17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to
condemn the world; but that the world might live
by means of him.
18
He that believeth on him is not condemned;
but he that believeth not, is already condemned;
because he hath not believed on the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
19
And this is the [ground of] condemnation, that
light hath come into the world, and men have
loved darkness rather than light, for their deeds
have been evil.
20
For every one that doeth abominable things,
hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest
his deeds should be reproved.
21
But he that doeth right, cometh to the light,
that his works may be known to be done in God.
22
After these things, came Jesus and his
disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he
abode with them, and baptized.
And John also was baptizing in Ænon, which
is near to Salim, because there were many
waters there: and the people came, and were
baptized.
24
For John had not yet fallen into prison.
25
And one of John's disciples and a certain Jew
had disputed respecting purification.
And they came to John, and said to him: Our
Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan,
and of whom thou gavest testimony, lo, he also
baptizeth; and many go after him.
John answered, and said to them: A man
cannot take any thing by his own choice, unless
it be given him from heaven.
28
Ye are witnesses for me, that I said: I am not
the Messiah, but am sent to go before him.
29
He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: and
the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and
listeneth to him, rejoiceth with great joy on
account of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy,
therefore, lo, it is full.
30
To him must be increase, and to me
decrease.
31
For he that cometh from above, is above all;
and he that is from the earth, is of the earth, and
talketh of the earth. He that cometh from
heaven, is above all;
32
and what he hath seen and heard, he
testifieth; and his testimony, no one receiveth.
33
But he that receiveth his testimony, hath set
his seal, that God is true.
34
For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the
words of God; for God hath not given the Spirit
by measure [to him].
35
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given
every thing into his hands.
36
He that believeth on the Son, hath life eternal;
but he who obeyeth not the Son, shall not see
life. but the wrath of God will abide upon him.
4:1 And Jesus knew, that the Pharisees had
heard; that he made many disciples, and
baptized more than John.
2
Yet Jesus himself did not baptize but his
disciples.
3
And he left Judaea, and went again into
Galilee.
4
And in going, he had occasion to pass through
the midst of the Samaritans.
5
And he came to a city of the Samaritans called
Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his
son Joseph.
6
And Jacob's well of water was there. And
Jesus was weary with the toil of travelling, and
seated himself by the well: and it was at the
sixth hour.
7 26
And a woman from Samaria came to draw
water. And Jesus said to her: Give me water to
drink.
8
And his disciples had gone to the city, to buy
themselves food.
9
The Samaritan woman said to him: How dost
thou, a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a
Samaritan woman? For the Jews have no
familiarity with Samaritans.
10
Jesus replied and said to her: If thou hadst
known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to
thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given thee
living waters.
11
The woman said to him: My lord, thou hast no
bucket, and the well is deep.; how hast thou
living waters?
12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who
gave us this well, and drank from it himself, and
his children, and his flocks?
13
Jesus replied and said to her: Whoever shall
drink of these waters, will thirst again;
14
but whoever shall drink of the waters which I
shall give him, will not thirst for ever; but the
waters, which I shall give him, will be in him a
fountain of waters, springing up unto life eternal.
15
The woman said to him: My lord, give me of
these waters, that I may not thirst again, and
may not come to draw from here.
16
Jesus said to her: Go, call thy husband, and
come hither.
17
She said to him: I have no husband. Jesus
said to her: Thou hast well said, I have no
husband;
18
for thou hast had five husbands, and he
whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. In this
thou didst speak truly.
19
The woman said to him: My lord, I perceive
thou art a prophet.
20
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; but
ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where it is
proper to worship.
21
Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the
hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor
in Jerusalem, ye will worship the Father.
22
Ye worship, ye know not what; but we
worship what we know; for life is from the Jews.
23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit
and in truth; for the Father requireth that
worshippers be such.
24
For God is a Spirit; and they that worship him,
should worship in spirit and in truth.
25
The woman said to him: I know that Messiah
will come; and when he cometh, he will teach us
every thing.
Jesus said to her: I, who talk with thee, am
he.
27
And while he was speaking, his disciples
came. And they wondered that he would
converse with the woman; yet no one said, What
seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28
And the woman left her water-pot, and went
to the city, and said [to the people]:
29
Come, see a man that told me every thing I
ever did: is not this the Messiah?
30
And the people went out of the city, and came
to him.
31
In the mean time, his disciples entreated him,
and said to him: Our Rabbi, eat.
32
But he said to them: I have food to eat, of
which ye are ignorant.
33
The disciples said among themselves: Hath
any one brought him something to eat?
34
Jesus said to them: My food is to do the
pleasure of him that sent me, and to accomplish
his work.
35
Do ye not say, that after four months cometh
the harvest? Behold, I say to you, and lift up
your eyes, and look upon the grounds, that they
are white, and have already come to the
harvest.
36
And he that reapeth, receiveth wages, and
gathereth fruits unto life eternal; and the sower
and the reaper equally rejoice.
37
For in this, is the proverb true, that one is the
sower, and another the reaper.
38
I sent you to reap that, on which ye labored
not: for others toiled, and ye entered into their
labor.
39
And many Samaritans of that city believed on
him, because of the discourse of the woman,
who testified, He told me all that I ever did.
40
And when these Samaritans came to him,
they requested him to tarry with them; and he
remained with them two days.
41
And many believed on him, because of his
discourse.
42
And they said to the woman: Henceforth we
believe in him, not on account of thy word; for
we have heard him ourselves, and we know that
he truly is the Messiah, the Life-Giver of the
world.
43
And after two days Jesus departed from there
and went into Galilee.
44
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is
not honored in his own city.
45
And when he came to Galilee, the Galileans
received him, having seen all the signs which he
wrought in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too
had gone to the feast.
46
And Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee,
where he made the water wine. And there was
at Capernaum a king's servant, whose son was
sick.
47
He heard that Jesus had come from Judaea
to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought
him that he would come down and heal his son;
for he was near dying.
48
Jesus said to him: Unless ye see signs and
wonders, ye will not believe.
49
The king's servant said to him: My lord, come
down, before the child dieth.
50
Jesus said to him: Go, thy son liveth. And the
man believed the word which Jesus spake to
him, and went away.
51
And as he was going down, his servants met
him, and informed him and said to him: Thy son
liveth.
52
And he asked them, at what time he
recovered. And they said to him: Yesterday, at
the seventh hour the fever left him.
53
And his father knew, that it was at the hour in
which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth. And he
believed, and all his house.
54
This again was the second sign that Jesus
wrought, when he came from Judaea to Galilee.
5:1 After these things there was a feast of the
Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 20
And there was there in Jerusalem a certain
place of baptizing, which was called in Hebrew
Bethesda; and there were in it five porches.
3
And in them were laid a great multitude of the
sick, and the blind, and the lame, and the
withered, waiting for the moving of the waters.
4
For an angel, from time to time, descended
into the baptistery, and moved the waters; and
he who first went in, after the moving of the
waters, was cured of whatever disease he had.
5
And a certain man was there, who had been
diseased thirty and eight years.
6 24
Jesus saw him lying, and knew that [his
disease] had been a long time upon him, and
said to him: Desirest thou to be healed?
7
And the sick man answered and said: Yes, my
lord; but I have no one who, when the water is
moved, will put me into the baptistery; but while I
am coming, another descendeth before me.
8
Jesus said to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and
walk.
9 26
And immediately the man was healed; and he
arose, took up his bed, and walked; and it was
the sabbath day.
10
And the Jews said to him that was healed: It
is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to bear thy
bed.
11
But he answered, and said to them: He that
made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed
and walk.
12
And they asked him: Who is the man that
said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk?
13
But the man that was healed, knew not who it
was; for Jesus had slid away, in the great
multitude that was in the place.
14
After a time, Jesus found him in the temple,
and said to him: Lo, thou art healed; sin not
again, lest something worse come upon thee
than before.
15
And the man went and told the Jews, that it
was Jesus who had cured him.
16
And for this cause the Jews persecuted
Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had
done these things on the sabbath.
17
But Jesus said to them: My Father worketh
until now, and I work.
18
And for this, the Jews sought the more to kill
him, not only because he had broken the
sabbath, but because he had said of God, that
he was his Father, and had equalled himself
with God.
19
And Jesus answered, and said to them:
Verily, verily, I say to you: The Son can do
nothing, of his own pleasure, but what he seeth
the Father do: for what things the Father doeth,
these in like manner doeth the Son.
For the Father loveth his Son, and showeth
him every thing he doeth: and greater works
than these, will he show him, that ye may
wonder.
21
For as the Father raiseth the dead, and
vivifieth them; so also the Son vivifieth whom he
pleaseth.
22
For neither doth the Father judge any one,
but hath given all judgment to the Son:
23
that every man may honor the Son, as he
honoreth the Father. He that honoreth not the
Son, honoreth not the Father that sent him.
Verily, verily, I say to you, That he who
heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent
me, hath life eternal, and will not come into
condemnation, but hath passed from death to
life.
25
Verily, verily, I say to you, That the hour
cometh, and even now come, when the dead will
hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that
hear, will live.
For, as the Father hath life in himself, so hath
he given to the Son also, to have life in himself:
27
and hath moreover given him authority to
9
execute judgment. But that he is the Son of
man,
28
wonder not at this; for the hour cometh when
all that are in their graves will hear his voice;
29
and will come forth; they that have done
good, to the resurrection of life, and they that
have done evil, to the resurrection of
condemnation.
30
I can do nothing of my own pleasure; but as I
hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just; for I
seek not my own pleasure, but the pleasure of
him that sent me.
31
If I should bear testimony respecting myself,
my testimony would not be valid.
32
There is another that beareth testimony
concerning me; and I know that the testimony
which he beareth concerning me is true.
33
Ye sent unto John; and he bore testimony to
the truth.
34
And I have not received testimony from men:
but these things I say, that ye may live.
35
He was a burning and shining lamp; and ye
were willing for a time, to glory in his light.
36
But I have a testimony, which is greater than
that of John; for the works which my Father hath
given me to accomplish, these works which I do,
testify of me that the Father hath sent me.
37
And the Father who sent me, he testifieth of
me. Ye have not at any time heard his voice, nor
have ye seen his visage.
38
And his word abideth not in you, because ye
believe not in him whom he hath sent.
39
Search the scriptures; for in them, ye think,
there is life eternal for you; and they testify of
me.
40
And ye are unwilling to come to me, that life
eternal may be yours.
41
I do not receive glory from men.
42
But I know you, that the love of God is not in
you.
43
I came in the name of my Father, and ye
receive me not: if another shall come in his own
name, him ye will receive.
9
John 5:27 - The Syriac punctuation here differs
from the Greek, and greatly alters the sense. If the
Greek punctuation were applied to the Syriac, this
and the following verse might be rendered thus:
27 "and hath moreover given him authority to
execute judgment, as he is also the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this; for the hour cometh," &c.
This is probably the true rendering of the passage;
since the other scarcely makes any intelligible sense.
44
How can ye believe, who receive glory from
one another, and seek not the glory which
cometh from God only?
45
Do ye suppose, that I shall accuse you before
the Father? There is one that will accuse you,
that Moses, on whom ye rely.
46
For, if ye believed Moses, ye would also
believe me; for Moses wrote concerning me.
47
But if ye believe not his writings, how will ye
believe my words?
6:1 After these things, Jesus went to the other
side of the sea of Galilee [or] of Tiberias.
2
And great multitudes went after him; because
they had seen the signs which he wrought upon
the sick.
3
And Jesus ascended a mountain, and there he
seated himself with his disciples.
4
And the feast of the Jewish passover was
near.
5
And Jesus raised his eyes, and saw a great
multitude coming towards him; and he said to
Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these
may eat?
6
And this he said, to try him; for he knew what
he was about to do.
7
Philip said to him: Two hundred denarii in
bread would not suffice them, that each might
take but a little.
8
One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of
Simon Cephas, said to him:
9
There is a lad here, who hath with him five
cakes of barley, and two fishes; but what are
these for all those [people]?
10
Jesus said to them: Make all the people
recline. Now there was much grass in that place:
and the people reclined, in number five
thousand.
11
And Jesus took the bread, and blessed, and
distributed to them that reclined. And so also,
with the fish; as much as they desired.
12
And when they were satisfied, he said to his
disciples: Gather up the fragments which
remain, that nothing be lost.
13
And they collected and filled twelve baskets,
with fragments of what remained to them that
had eaten of the five barley cakes.
14
And those people, when they saw the sign
which Jesus had wrought, said: Certainly, this is
that prophet who was to come into the world.
15
And Jesus knew, that they were about to
come and take him by force, and make him king:
and he retired into a mountain alone.
16
And when it was evening, his disciples went
down to the sea,
17
and sat in a ship, and were going over to
Capernaum. And darkness came on, and Jesus
had not come to them.
18
And the sea was boisterous against them, for
a violent wind was blowing.
19
And they had gone about five and twenty or
thirty furlongs, when they saw Jesus walking
upon the sea: and as he drew near to the ship,
they were afraid.
20
But Jesus said to them: It is I; be not afraid.
21
And they were glad to receive him into the
ship. And, directly, the ship was at the land to
which they were going.
22
And the next day, the multitude, who had
remained on the other side of the sea, saw that
there was no other ship there, except that in
which the disciples embarked, and that Jesus
did not embark in that ship with his disciples;
23
yet that other ships had come from Tiberias,
near to the place where they ate the bread when
Jesus blessed [it].
24
And when the multitude saw, that Jesus was
not there, nor his disciples; they embarked in
ships, and came to Capernaum, and sought for
Jesus.
25
And when they found him on the other side of
the sea, they said to him: Our Rabbi, when
camest thou hither?
26
Jesus replied and said to them: Verily, verily,
I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw
the signs, but because ye ate the bread and
were satisfied.
27
Labor not for the food that perisheth, but for
the food that abideth unto life eternal, which the
Son of man will give to you; for him hath God the
Father sealed.
28
They said to him: What shall we do, in order
to work the works of God?
29
Jesus replied and said to them: This is the
work of God, that ye believe on him whom he
hath sent.
30
They say to him: What sign doest thou, that
we may see and believe in thee? What workest
thou?
31
Our fathers ate the manna, in the wilderness;
as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven
to eat.
32
Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you,
Moses gave you not the bread from heaven; but
my Father giveth you the real bread from
heaven.
33
For the bread of God is, he that came down
from heaven, and giveth life to the world.
34
They say to him: Our Lord, give us at all
times this bread.
35
Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he
that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that
believeth on me, shall not thirst, for ever.
36
But I said to you, That ye have seen me, and
do not believe.
37
All that my Father gave me, will come to me:
and him, that cometh to me, I will not cast out.
38
For I came down from heaven, not to do my
own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent
me.
39
And this is the pleasure of him that sent me,
that whatever he hath given me, I should lose
nothing of it, but should raise it up at the last
day.
40
For this is the pleasure of my Father, that
every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on
him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him
up at the last day.
41
Then the Jews murmured at him, because he
said: I am the bread, who have descended from
heaven.
42
And they said: Is not this Jesus the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
And how doth he say: I came down from
heaven?
43
Jesus replied and said to them: Murmur not,
one with another.
44
No man can come to me, unless the Father
who sent me, shall draw him; and I will raise him
up at the last day.
45
For it is written, in the prophet: And they shall
all be taught of God. Whoever, therefore,
heareth from the Father, and learneth from him,
cometh to me.
46
Not that any one hath seen the Father,
except him who hath come from God; he it is,
hath seen the Father.
47
Verily, verily, I say to you: That, to him who
believeth in me, there is life eternal.
48
I am the bread of life.
49
Your fathers ate the manna, in the
wilderness, and they died.
50
But this is the bread which cometh from
heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
51
I am the bread of life, who have come down
from heaven: and if a man shall eat of this
bread, he will live for ever. And the bread which I
shall give, is my body, which I give for the life of
the world.
52
Then the Jews contended one with another,
and said: How can he give us his body to eat?
53
And Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to
you, That, unless ye eat the body of the Son of
man, and drink his blood, ye have no life within
you.
54
But he that eateth of my body, and drinketh of
my blood, to him is life eternal; and I will raise
him up at the last day
55
For my body truly is food, and my blood truly
is drink.
56
He that eateth my body, and drinketh my
blood, abideth in me, and I in him
57
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live
because of the Father; so he that shall eat me,
he also will live because of me.
58
This is the bread that came down from
heaven: not as your fathers ate the manna, and
died; whoever shall eat of this bead, will live for
ever.
59
These things he uttered in the synagogue,
while teaching at Capernaum.
60
And many of his disciples who heard [him],
said: This is a hard speech, who can hear it.
61
And Jesus knew in himself, that his disciples
murmured at this; and he said to them, Doth this
stumble you?
62
If then, ye were to see the Son of man
ascend, to where he was from the beginning!
63
It is the Spirit that vivifieth; the body profiteth
nothing. The words which I have used with you,
they are spirit, and they are life.
64
But there are some of you, that believe not.
For Jesus knew, from the beginning, who they
were that believed not, and who it was that
would betray him.
65
And he said to them: For this reason, I said to
you, That no one can come to me, unless it be
given to him by my Father.
66
On account of this speech, many of his
disciples turned back, and walked not with him.
67
And Jesus said to the twelve: Are ye also
disposed to go away?
68
Simon Cephas replied, and said: My Lord, to
whom shall we go? The words of life eternal are
with thee.
69
And we believe, and know, that thou art the
Messiah, the Son of the living God.
70
Jesus said to them: Have not I chosen you
twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.
71
This he spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon; for he was afterwards to betray him,
being one of the twelve.
7:1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee,
for he would not walk in Judaea, because the
Jews sought to slay him.
2
And the Jewish feast of tabernacles drew
near.
3 24
And the brothers of Jesus said to him: Leave
here, and go into Judaea; that thy disciples may
see the works thou doest.
4
For there is no one who doeth any thing in
secret, while he wisheth to become public. If
thou doest these things, show thyself to the
world.
5
For even his brothers did not believe in Jesus.
6
Jesus said to them: My time hath not yet
come: but your time is always ready.
7
The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth;
because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
8
Go ye up to the feast; I do not go up to this
feast now, because my time is not yet
completed.
9
These things he said, and remained still in
Galilee.
10
But when his brothers had gone up to the
feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it
were secretly.
11
And the Jews sought for him at the feast; and
they said, Where is he?
12
And there was much altercation among the
people respecting him; for some said, He is a
good man; while others said, No, but he
deceiveth the people.
13
Yet no one spoke openly of him, from fear of
the Jews.
14
And in the midst of the days of the feast,
Jesus went into the temple, and taught.
15
And the Jews wondered, and said: How
knoweth this man literature, having not been
educated?
16
Jesus answered and said: My doctrine is not
from me, but from him that sent me.
17
He that wisheth to do his pleasure, will
understand my doctrine, whether it is from God,
or whether I speak from my own pleasure.
18
He that speaketh according to the pleasure of
his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he
who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is
veracious, and evil is not in his heart.
19
Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one
of you observeth the law.
20
Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude
answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who
seeketh to kill thee?
21
Jesus replied, and said to them: I have
wrought one work, and ye all wonder.
22
Because Moses gave you circumcision, not
that it was from Moses, but it was from the
fathers, ye circumcise a child on the sabbath.
23
And if a child is circumcised on the sabbath
day, that the law of Moses may not be violated,
do ye murmur at me, because I have made a
man entirely sound on the sabbath day?
Judge not, with a respect for persons; but
judge ye a righteous judgment.
25
And some from Jerusalem said: Is not this he,
whom they seek to kill?
26
And lo, he discourseth publicly, and they say
nothing to him. Do our Elders know, that he
really is the Messiah?
27
Yet we know this man, whence he is; the
Messiah, when he shall come, no one knoweth
whence he is.
28
And Jesus, while teaching in the temple,
raised his voice and said: Ye both know me, and
ye know from whence I am. And I did not come
of my own accord; but he that sent me is true.
Him ye know not;
29
but I know him; because I am from him, and
he sent me.
30
And they sought to apprehend him; but no
one laid hands on him, because his hour was
not yet come.
31
And many of the multitude believed on him,
and said: When the Messiah cometh, will he
work greater signs than these which this man
doeth?
32
And the Pharisees heard the multitude say
these things of him: and they and the chief
priests sent constables to take him.
33
And Jesus said: A little while longer I am with
you, and then I go to him that sent me.
34
And ye will seek me, and will not find me; and
where I am, ye cannot come.
35
The Jews said among themselves: Whither is
he about to go, that we cannot find him? Will he
go to some region of the Gentiles, and teach the
profane?
36
What means this speech he uttered: Ye will
seek me, and will not find me; and where I am,
ye cannot come?
37
And on the great day, which was the last of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried, and said: If any
man thirst, let him come to me and drink.
38
Whoever believeth in me, as the scriptures
have said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living waters.
39
This he said of the Spirit, which they who
believe in him were to receive: for the Spirit had
not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet
glorified.
40
And many of the multitude who heard his
discourses, said: Certainly, he is a prophet.
41
Others said: He is the Messiah. Others said:
Doth Messiah come from Galilee?
42
Doth not the scriptures say, That Messiah
cometh of the seed of David, and from
Bethlehem the town of David?
43
And there was a division among the multitude
respecting him.
44
And there were some of them who wished to
apprehend him. But no one laid hands on him.
45
And the constables came to the chief priests
and Pharisees; and the priests said to them:
Why have ye not brought him?
46
The constables say to them: Never did a man
speak, as this man speaketh.
47
The Pharisees said to them: Are ye also
deceived?
48
Have any of the chiefs, or of the Pharisees,
believed in him?
49
But this people, who know not the law, are
accursed.
50
One of them: Nicodemus, he who came to
Jesus by night, said to them:
51
Doth our law condemn a man, unless it first
hear him, and know what he hath done?
52
They answered, and said to him: Art thou
also from Galilee? Search, and see, that no
prophet ariseth from Galilee.
53 10
So they went every one to his own house.
8:1 And Jesus went to the mount of Olives.
2
And in the morning he came again to the
temple; and all the people came to him, and he
sat down and taught them.
3
And the Scribes and Pharisees brought
forward a woman that was caught in adultery.
And when they had placed her in the midst,
4
they say to him: Teacher, this woman was
caught openly in the act of adultery.
5
And in the law of Moses, [God] hath
commanded us to stone such persons. What
therefore dost thou say?
6
And this they said, tempting him, so that they
might have [ground] to accuse him. But Jesus
having stooped down, was writing on the
ground.
7
And as they continued asking him, he
straightened himself up, and said to them:
Whoever among you is without sin, let him first
cast a stone at her.
8
And, having again stooped down, he wrote on
the ground.
9
And they, when they heard [it], went out one
by one, beginning with the older; and the woman
was left, alone where she had stood in the
midst.
10
John 7:53 - This 53d verse is absent in all Eastern
Peshitta MSS and many of the Western Peshitto
editions of the Syriac N. Testament. So also the
whole story of the adulteress, in the following
chapter, v. 1-11.
10
And when Jesus had straightened himself up,
he said to the woman: Where are they? Doth no
one condemn thee?
11
And she said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said:
Neither do I condemn thee. Go thou, and
henceforth sin no more.
12
And Jesus again conversed with them, and
said: I am the light of the world: he that cometh
to me, will not walk in darkness; but will find for
himself the light of life.
13
The Pharisees said to him: Thou bearest
witness of thyself, thy testimony is not certain.
14
Jesus answered and said to them: Although I
bear witness of myself, my testimony is certain,
because I know whence I came, and whither I
go. But ye do not know, whence I came, and
whither I go.
15
Ye judge according to the flesh: I judge no
one.
16
Yet if I judge, my judgment is certain,
because I am not alone, but I and my Father
who sent me.
17
And in your law it is written, that the testimony
of two persons is certain.
18
I am one: who bear witness of myself, and my
Father who sent me, beareth witness of me.
19
They say to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus
replied, and said to them: Ye neither know me
nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would
also have known my Father.
20
These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as
he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands
on him, because his hour was not yet come.
21
Again Jesus said to them: I go away, and ye
will seek me, and will die in your sins. And
whither I go, ye cannot come.
22
The Jews said: Is he about to kill himself, that
he should say, Whither I go ye cannot come?
23
And he said to them: Ye are from below, I am
from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this
world
24
I said to you, That ye will die in your sins; for
if ye believe not that I am he, ye will die in your
sins.
25
The Jews said to him: Who art thou? Jesus
said to them: Although I have begun to converse
with you,
26
I have yet many things to say and to Judge
concerning you. But he that sent me is true: and
the things which I have heard from him, them I
speak in the world.
27
And they did not know, that he spake to them
of the Father.
28
Jesus said to them again: When ye shall
have lifted up the Son of man, then will ye know
that I am he, and that I do nothing from my own
pleasure, but as my Father taught me, so I
speak.
29
And he that sent me, is with me; and my
Father hath not left me alone, because I do, at
all times, that which pleaseth him.
30
And when he had spoken these things, many
believed on him.
31
And Jesus said to those Jews who believed
on him: If ye continue in my word, ye will be truly
my disciples.
32
And ye will know the truth; and the truth will
make you free.
33
They say to him: We are the seed of
Abraham, and never were in servitude to any
man; and how sayest thou, Ye will be freemen?
34
Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you,
That whoever committeth sin, is the servant of
sin.
35
And a servant abideth not for ever in the
house; but the Son abideth for ever.
36
If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye
will really be free men.
37
I know that ye are the children of Abraham;
but ye seek to kill me, because ye do not
acquiesce in my word.
38
I speak that which I have seen with my
Father, and ye do that which ye have seen with
your father.
39
They answered, and said to him: Our father is
Abraham. Jesus said to them: If ye were
children of Abraham, ye would do the works of
Abraham.
40
But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath
told you the truth, which I have heard from God:
this did not Abraham.
41
But ye do the works of your father. They say
to him: We are not [the offspring] of whoredom;
we have one Father, God.
42
Jesus said to them: If God were your Father,
ye would love me; for I proceeded and came
from God: I did not come of my own accord, but
he sent me.
43
Why do ye not understand my speech? It is
because ye cannot hear my speech.
44
Ye are of your father, the calumniator; and
the lust of your father ye are disposed to do. He
was from the beginning a manslayer, and abode
not in the truth; for the truth is not in him, and
when he speaketh a lie he speaketh from
himself, for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45
But me, because I speak the truth, ye believe
me not.
46
Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I
speak the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47
He that is of God, heareth the words of God.
Therefore ye do not hear, because ye are not of
God.
48
The Jews answered, and said to him: Did we
not well say, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast
a demon?
49
Jesus said to them: I have no demon: but I
honor God; and ye contemn me.
50
But I seek not my own glory: there is one that
seeketh [it], and judgeth.
51
Verily, verily, I say to you: He that keepeth my
word, will never see death.
52
The Jews say to him: Now we know, that thou
hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the
prophets; yet thou sayest: He that keepeth my
word, will never taste death.
53
Art thou greater than our father Abraham who
is dead, or than the prophets who died? What
dost thou make thyself?
54
Jesus said to them: If I glorify myself, my
glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me,
of whom ye say, He is our God.
55
And ye know him not. But I know him; and if I
should say, I know him not, I should be a liar,
like you: but I do know him, and I observe his
word.
56
Abraham your father desired to see my day:
and he saw it, and rejoiced.
57
The Jews say to him: Thou art not yet fifty
years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58
Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you,
That before Abraham existed, I was.
59
And they took up stones to stone him. But
Jesus concealed himself, and went out of the
temple, and passed along among them, and
went away.
9:1 And while passing, he saw a man blind from
his mother's womb.
2 21
And his disciples asked him, and said: Our
Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind?
3 22
Jesus said to them: Neither did he sin, nor his
parents; but that the works of God might be
seen in him.
4
I must work the works of him that sent me,
while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one
can work.
5 24
So long as I am in the world, I am the light of
the world.
6
And having spoken thus, he spit on the
ground, and made mud with the spittle, and
spread it on the eyes of the blind man;
7
and said to him: Go, wash in the baptistery of
Siloam. And he went, and washed, and came
away seeing.
8
And his neighbors, and they by whom he had
before been seen begging, said: Is not this he,
who sat and begged?
9
Some said, It is he: and others said, No; but
he is very like him. But he said: I am he.
10
And they said to him: How were thy eyes
opened?
11
He answered, and said to them: A man
whose name is Jesus, made mud and spread it
on my eyes, and said to me, Go, wash in the
waters of Siloam. And I went, and washed, and
my sight was restored.
12
They said to him: Where is he? He said to
them: I know not.
13
And they brought him that had been blind,
before the Pharisees.
14
Now it was on the sabbath that Jesus made
the mud, and opened his eyes.
15
And again the Pharisees asked him: How
was thy sight restored? And he said to them: He
put mud upon my eyes, and I washed, and my
sight was restored.
16
And some of the Pharisees said: This man is
not of God, for he doth not observe the sabbath.
But others said: How can a man that is a sinner,
work these signs? And there was a division
among them.
17
They say again to the blind man: What sayest
thou of him, seeing he hath opened thy eyes?
He said to them: I say, that he is a prophet.
18
And the Jews would not believe concerning
him, that he had been blind, and recovered
sight, until they called the parents of him who
recovered sight.
19
And they asked them: Is this your son, of
whom ye say that he was born blind? And how
doth he now see?
20
And his parents answered and said: We know
that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
but how he now seeth, or who opened his
eyes, we know not. He hath come to his years,
ask him; he will speak for himself.
These things said his parents, because they
feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that
if any one should confess him to be Messiah,
they would expel him from the synagogue.
23
For this reason his parents said, He hath
come to his years, ask him.
And they called a second time the man who
had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to
God; for we know that this man is a sinner.
25
He replied, and said to them: Whether he is a
sinner, I know not; but, one thing I know, that I
was blind, and lo, now I see.
26
They said to him again: What did he to thee?
How did he open thy eyes?
27
He said to them: I have told you, and ye did
not hear. Why would ye hear again? Do ye also
wish to become his disciples?
28
But they reproached him, and said to him:
Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of
Moses.
29
And we know that God conversed with
Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence
he is.
30
The man replied and said to them: In this
therefore is [something] to be admired, that ye
know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened
my eyes.
31
Now we know, that God heareth not the voice
of sinners; but him that feareth him, and doeth
his pleasure, him he heareth.
32
Never hath it been heard, that any one
opened the eyes of one born blind.
33
If this man were not of God, he could not do
this thing.
34
They replied, and said to him: Thou wast
wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And
they expelled him.
35
And Jesus heard that they had expelled him;
and he found him, and said to him: Believest
thou on the Son of God?
36
And he that was healed, answered and said:
My Lord, who is he, that I may believe on him?
37
Jesus said to him: Thou hast seen him, and it
is he that talketh with thee.
38
And he said: My Lord, I believe: and he fell
down, and worshipped him.
39
And Jesus said: For the judgment of this
world, have I come; that they who see not, might
see; and that they who see, might become blind.
40
And [some] of those Pharisees who were with
him, heard these things; and they said to him:
How? Are we also blind?
41
Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would
be without sin; but now ye say, We see;
therefore your sin is established.
10:1 Verily, verily, I say to you, That he who
doth not enter by the door into the fold of the
flock, but climbeth up in some other place, he is
a thief and a robber.
2 22
But he that entereth by the door, is the
shepherd of the flock.
3 23
And to him the door-keeper openeth the door;
and the sheep hear his voice. And he calleth the
sheep by their names, and leadeth them out.
4
And when he hath led out his flock, he goeth
before it; and his sheep follow him, because
they know his voice.
5
But after a stranger the flock will not follow, but
it fleeth from him; because it knoweth not the
voice of a stranger.
6
This allegory spake Jesus to them; but they
knew not what he said to them.
7
And Jesus said to them again: Verily, verily, I
say to you, That I am the door of the flock.
8
All those who have come, were thieves and
robbers: but the flock did not hear them.
9
I am the door: and if any enter by me, he will
live, and will come in and go out, and will find
pasture.
10
The thief cometh not, but that he may steal,
and kill, and destroy. I have come, that they may
have life, and may have that which is excellent.
11
I am a good shepherd. A good shepherd
exposeth his life for the sheep.
12
But a hireling, who is not the shepherd, and
to whom the sheep do not belong, when he
seeth the wolf coming, leaveth the flock, and
fleeth; and the wolf cometh, and teareth, and
disperseth the flock.
13
And a hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling,
and hath no concern for the flock.
14
I am a good shepherd; and I know my own
[sheep], and am known by my own.
15
As my Father knoweth me, so know I my
Father; and I expose my life for the flock.
16
And I have other sheep, which are not of this
fold: and them also I must bring; and they will
hear my voice; and the whole will be one flock,
and one shepherd.
17
For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay
down my life, to resume it again.
18
There is no one that taketh it from me; but I
lay it down of my own pleasure: for I have
authority to lay it down, and authority to resume
it again; because I have received this command
from my Father.
19
And again there was a division among the
Jews, on account of these sayings.
20
And many of them said: He hath a demon,
and is wholly beside himself; why hear ye him?
21
But others said: These are not the discourses
of a demoniac: can a demon open the eyes of
one blind?
And the feast of the dedication was [held] at
Jerusalem, and it was winter.
And Jesus walked in the temple, in the porch
of Solomon.
24
And the Jews gathered around him; and said
to him: how long holdest thou our mind in
suspense? If thou art the Messiah, tell us plainly.
25
Jesus answered, and said to them: I have
told you, and ye did not believe. The works

which I do in the name of my Father, they testify
of me
26
But ye do not believe, because ye are not of
my sheep, as I have said to you.
27
My sheep hear my voice: and I know them:
and they go after me.
28
And I give to them life eternal: and they will
never be lost: nor will any one pluck them from
my hand.
29
For my Father, who gave [them] to me, is
greater than all; nor can any pluck from my
Father's hand.
30
I and my Father are one.
31
And again the Jews took up stones, to stone
him.
32
Jesus said to them: Many good works have I
showed you from my Father; for which of those
works do ye stone me?
33
The Jews said to him: It is not on account of
good works, that we stone thee: but because
thou blasphemest; and, whilst thou art a man,
thou makest thyself God.
34
Jesus said to them: Is it not written in your
law, I have said, Ye are gods?
35
If he called them gods, because the word of
God was with them, and the scripture cannot be
nullified;
36
do ye say to him, whom the Father, hath
sanctified and sent into the world, Thou
blasphemest; because I said to you, I am the
Son of God?
37
And if I do not the works of my Father,
believe me not.
38
But if I do [them], although ye believe not me,
yet believe the works; that ye may know and
believe, that my Father is in me, and I in my
Father.
39
And again they sought to lay hold of him; but
he escaped out of their hands;
40
and retired to the other side of the Jordan, to
the place where John at first baptized, and
tarried there.
41
And many persons came to him: and they
said, John indeed wrought not even one sign;
but every thing that John said of his man, was
true.
42
And many believed on him.
11:1 And a certain man was sick, Lazarus of the
town of Bethany, the brother of Mary and
Martha.
2
It was that Mary who anointed the feet of
Jesus with perfume, and wiped [them] with her
hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3
And his two sisters sent to Jesus, and said:
Our Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4
And Jesus said: This sickness is not that of
death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of
God may be glorified by means of it.
5
Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary, and
Lazarus.
6
And when he heard that he was sick, he
remained in the place where he was two days.
7
And afterwards he said to his disciples: Come,
let us go again into Judaea.
8
His disciples say to him: Our Rabbi, the Jews
have just sought to stone thee; and goest thou
again thither.
9
Jesus said to them: Are there not twelve hours
in the day? And if a man walk in the daytime, he
stumbleth not; because he seeth the light of the
world.
10
But if one walk in the night, he stumbleth;
because there is no light in him.
11
These things said Jesus, and afterwards he
said to them: Lazarus our friend reposeth. But I
go to awake him.
12
His disciples say to him: Our Lord, if he
sleepeth, he is recovering.
13
But Jesus spoke of his death; and they
thought, he spoke of the sleep of repose.
14
Then Jesus said to them explicitly; Lazarus is
dead.
15
And I rejoice, for your sakes, that I was not
there; that ye may believe. But let us go there.
16
Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his
fellow-disciples: Let us also go [and] die with
him.
17
And Jesus came to Bethany, and found that
he had been in the grave four days.
18
Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, distant
from it about fifteen furlongs.
19
And many of the Jews had come to Martha
and Mary, to comfort them concerning their
brother.
20
And Martha, when she heard that Jesus was
coming, went out to meet him; but Mary was
sitting in the house.
21
And Martha said to Jesus: My Lord, if thou
hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22
But even now, I know, that whatever thou wilt
ask of God, he will give it thee.
23
Jesus said to her: Thy brother will rise.
24
Martha said to him: I know, that he will rise in
the consolation, at the last day.
25
Jesus said to her: I am the consolation, and
life. And he that believeth in me, though he
should die, will live.
26
And every one that liveth, and believeth in
me, will not die for ever. Believest thou this?
27
She said to him: Yes, my Lord; I believe, that
thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, that
cometh into the world.
28
And when she had thus said, she went and
called her sister Mary, secretly, and said to her:
Our Rabbi hath come, and calleth for thee.
29
And Mary, when she heard [it], rose up
quickly, and went to meet him.
30
And Jesus had not yet entered the village, but
was in the place where Martha met him.
31
Those Jews also, who were with her in the
house and consoled her, when they saw that
Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed
after her; for they supposed, she was going to
the grave to weep.
32
And Mary, when she came where Jesus was
and saw him, fell at his feet, and said to him: If
thou hadst been here, my Lord, my brother had
not died.
33
And when Jesus saw her weeping, and the
Jews weeping who came with her, he was
moved in spirit, and was agitated.
34
And he said: Where have ye laid him? They
say to him: Our Lord, come, and see.
35
And the tears of Jesus came.
36
And the Jews said: See, how much he loved
him.
37
And some of them said: Could not he who
opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused
that this also should not have died?
38
And Jesus, still agitated within, came to the
grave. Now the grave was a cave, and a stone
was laid upon its entrance.
39
And Jesus said: Take away this stone.
Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him:
My Lord, by this time he is putrid; for four days
have elapsed.
40
Jesus said to her: Did I not tell thee, that if
thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory
of God?
41
And they took away the stone. And Jesus
raised his eyes on high, and said: Father, I thank
thee that thou hast heard me.
42
And I know that thou hearest me always; but
on account of this multitude that standeth here, I
say these things; that they may believe, that
thou hast sent me.
43
And when he had thus spoken, he called with
a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth!
44
And the dead man came forth, with his hands
and his feet swathed with bandages, and his
face with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose
him, and let him go.
45
And many of the Jews who had come to
Mary, when they saw what Jesus did, believed
on him.
46
But some of them went to the Pharisees, and
told them all that Jesus had done.
47
And the chief priests and Pharisees
assembled together, and said: What shall we
do? For this man worketh many signs.
48
And if we thus let him alone, all the people
will believe in him; and the Romans will come,
and will take away our place and our nation.
49
But, one of them, named Caiaphas, was the
high priest of that year; and he said to them: Ye
know not any thing.
50
Neither do ye consider, that it is expedient for
us, that one man die for the people, and not that
this whole people perish.
51
This he said, however, not from the
promptings of his own mind; but being the high
priest of that year, he prophesied, that Jesus
was about to die for the people:
52
and not only for the people, but also that he
might collect together the sons of God that were
dispersed.
53
And from that day, they plotted to kill him.
54
And Jesus did not walk openly among the
Jews; but retired from them to a place near the
wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there
he abode with his disciples.
55
And the passover of the Jews drew near: and
many went up from the villages to Jerusalem,
before the feast, that they might purify
themselves.
56
And they sought for Jesus; and they said one
to another, in the temple: What think ye? that he
will not come to the feast?
57
And the chief priests and the Pharisees had
commanded that if any one knew where he was,
he should make it known to them, that they
might take him.
12:1 And six days before the passover, Jesus
came to Bethany, where was that Lazarus whom
Jesus raised from the dead.
2
And they made a supper for him there: and
Martha served, and Lazarus was one of the
guests with him.
3
And Mary took an alabaster box of perfume of
choice spikenard, of great price; and anointed
the feet of Jesus; and she wiped his feet with
her hair. And the house was filled with the odor
of the perfume.
4
Then said Judas Iscariot, one of the disciples,
he that was about to betray him:
5
Why was not this ointment sold for three
hundred denarii, and given to the poor?
6
And this he said, not be cause he cared for the
poor, but because he was thief, and held the
purse, and carried what was put in it.
7 26
But Jesus said: Let her alone; she hath kept it
for the day of my burial.
8
For the poor are always with you, but I am not
with you always.
9
And great multitudes of the Jews heard that he
was there: and they came, not only on account
of Jesus, but also that they might see Lazarus,
whom he raised from the dead.
10
And the chief priests deliberated about killing
even Lazarus:
11
because many of the Jews, on his account,
went and believed in Jesus.
12
And the next day, a great multitude who had
come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus
was coming to Jerusalem,
13
took boughs of palm-trees, and went out to
meet him. And they cried, and said: Hosanna,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
LORD, the king of Israel!
14
And Jesus found an ass, and sat upon it; as it
is written
15
Fear not, daughter of Sion. Behold, thy king
cometh to thee; and he rideth upon a colt, the
foal of an ass.
16
These things understood not his disciples, at
that time; but when Jesus was glorified, then his
disciples remembered that these things were
written of him, and that they did them to him.
17
And the multitude that had been with him,
testified that he had called Lazarus from the
grave, and raised him from the dead.
18
And for this reason, great multitudes went out
to meet him, as they had heard that he wrought
this sign.
19
But the Pharisees said, one to another: Do ye
see, that ye are gaining nothing? For, lo, the
whole world is going after him.
20
And there were also among the people, some
who had come up to worship at the feast.
21
These came, and approached Philip, who
was of Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him: My
lord, we are desirous to see Jesus.
22
Philip came and told Andrew; and Andrew
and Philip told Jesus.
23
And Jesus answered, and said to them: The
hour is come that the Son of man should be
glorified.
24
Verily, verily, I say to you, That a kernel of
wheat, unless it fall and die in the ground,
remaineth alone; but if it die, it produceth
numerous fruits.
25
He that loveth his life, will lose it; and he that
hateth his life, in this world, will preserve it unto
life everlasting.
If any one is servant to me, he will come after
me; and where I am, there also will my servant
be. Him that serveth me, will the Father honor.
27
Behold, now is my soul troubled; and what
shall I say? My Father, deliver me from this
hour? But for this very cause, came I to this
hour.
28
Father, glorify thy name! And a voice was
heard from heaven: I have glorified [it]; and I will
glorify [it] again.
29
And the multitude standing by, heard [it]; and
they said: There was thunder. But others said:
An angel spoke with him.
30
Jesus answered, and said to them: This voice
was not for my sake, but for yours.
31
Now is the judgment of this world: now the
ruler of this world is cast out.
32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men to me.
33
And this he said, to show by what manner of
death, he was to die.
34
The multitude said to him: We have heard
from the law, that the Messiah abideth for ever:
[and] how sayest thou, that the Son of man is to
be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
35
Jesus said to them: A short time longer, the
light is with you. Walk, while ye have the light,
lest the darkness overtake you. He that walketh
in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.
36
While the light is with you, confide in the light;
that ye may be children of the light. These things
said Jesus, and departed, and concealed
himself from them.
37
And although he wrought all these signs
before them, they believed him not;
38
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be
fulfilled, who said: My Lord; who hath believed
our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD
revealed?
39
For this reason they could not believe,
because Isaiah said again:
40
They have blinded their eyes, and darkened
their hearts; that they might not see with their
eyes, and understand with their heart, and be
converted; and I should heal them.
41
These things spake Isaiah, when he saw his
glory, and spoke of him.
42
And of the chiefs also, many believed on him;
but on account of the Pharisees, they did not
confess [him], lest they should be put out of the
synagogue;
43
for they loved the praise of men, more than
the praise of God.
44
And Jesus cried, and said: He that believeth
in me, believeth not in me, but in him that sent
me.
45
And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent
me.
46
I have come into the world, a light, that
whoever believeth in me, might not abide in
darkness.
47
And whoever shall hear my words, and not
observe them, I judge him not; for I did not come
to judge the world, but to vivify the world.
48
Whoever rejecteth me, and receiveth not my
words, there is one to judge him; the word which
I speak, will judge him, at the last day.
49
For I have not spoken from myself; but the
Father who sent me, he gave me
commandment, what I should speak, and what I
should say.
50
And I know that his commandment is life
eternal. Therefore, these things which I speak,
as my Father hath said to me, so I speak.
13:1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus
knew that the hour had come when he should
depart from this world unto the Father. And he
loved his own [people], who were in the world;
and he loved them unto the end.
2
And when the supper was passed, it had been
injected by Satan into the heart of Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.
3
And Jesus, because he knew that the Father
had given all things into his hands; and that he
came out from the Father, and was going to
God;
4 23
arose from the supper, and laid aside his long
garments, and took a linen cloth, and wrapped it
about his loins;
5
and poured water into a wash-basin, and
began to wash the feet of his disciples: and he
wiped them with the linen cloth with which he
had girded his loins.
6
And when he came to Simon Cephas, Simon
said to him: Dost thou, my Lord, wash my feet
for me?
7 27
Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do,
thou understandest not now: but hereafter thou
wilt understand.
8 28
Simon Cephas said to him: Never shalt thou
wash my feet. Jesus said to him: Unless I wash
thee, thou hast no part with me.
9
Simon Cephas said to him: Then, my Lord, not
my feet only shalt thou wash, but also my hands
and my head.
10
Jesus said to him: He that hath bathed,
needeth not but to wash his feet; for he is all
clean. And ye also are clean; but not all of you.
11
For Jesus knew, who would betray him:
therefore he said, Ye are not all clean.
12
And when he had washed their feet, he
resumed his long garments, and reclined. And
he said to them: Understand ye what I have
done to you?
13
Ye call me, Our Rabbi, and Our Lord; and ye
speak well; for I am so.
14
If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have
washed your feet, how much more ought ye to
wash the feet of one another?
15
For I have given you this example, that ye
might do, as I have done to you.
16
Verily, verily, I say to you, That no servant is
greater than his lord; and no legate is greater
than he who sent him.
17
If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye
do them.
18
Not of you all, do I speak: I know whom I
have chosen. But that the scripture may be
fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted
his heel against me.
19
From this time, I tell you, before it occurs, that
when it shall occur, ye may know that I am he.
20
Verily, verily, I say to you: He that receiveth
him whom I send, receiveth me; and he that
receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
21
These things said Jesus, and he was agitated
in his spirit; and he testified, and said: Verily,
verily, I say to you, That one of you will betray
me.
22
And the disciples stared at one another;
because they knew not, of whom he spake.
And there was one of his disciples, who was
reclining on his bosom, he whom Jesus loved;
24
to him Simon Cephas beckoned, that he
should ask him, who it was of whom he spoke.
25
And that disciple fell upon the breast of
Jesus, and said to him: My Lord, which is he?
26
Jesus answered and said: He it is, to whom I
give the bread when I have dipped it. And Jesus
dipped the bread, and gave it to Judas Iscariot,
the son of Simon.
And after the bread, then Satan entered into
him. And Jesus said to him: What thou doest, do
quickly.
And no one of those reclining, knew,
wherefore he said this to him.
29
For some of them supposed, because the
purse was in the hands of Judas, that Jesus
expressly charged him to buy something needful
for the feast, or that he should give something to
the poor.
30
And Judas took the bread at once, and went
out of the house. And it was night when he went
out.
31
And Jesus said: Now is the Son of man
glorified; and God is glorified in him.
32
And if God is glorified in him, God will glorify
him in himself; and will glorify him speedily.
33
My children, a little longer I am with you; and
ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews,
Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to
you.
34
A new commandment I give to you, that ye be
affectionate to each other. As I have loved you,
do ye also love one another.
35
By this will every one know that ye are my
disciples, if ye have love for each other.
36
Simon Cephas said to him: Our Lord, whither
goest thou? Jesus answered, and said to him:
Whither I go, thou canst not now come after me;
but thou wilt at last come.
37
Simon Cephas said to him: My Lord, why can
I not come after thee? I would lay down my life
for thee.
38
Jesus said to him: Wouldst thou lay down thy
life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock
will not crow, until thou hast three times denied
me.
14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in
God, and, believe in me.
2 22
There are many mansions in the house of my
Father: and if not, I would have told you; for I go
to prepare a place for you.
3 23
And if I go to prepare for you a place, I will
come again and take you to myself; that where I
am, there ye may be also.
4
And whither I go, ye know; and the way ye
know.
5
Thomas said to him: Our Lord, we know not
whither thou goest; and how can we know the
way?
6
Jesus said to him: I am the way, and truth, and
life: no one cometh unto my Father, but by me.
7
If ye had known me, ye would also have
known my Father: and henceforth, ye know him,
and have seen him.
8 27
Philip said to him: Our Lord, show us the
Father, and it will suffice for us.
9
Jesus said to him: Have I been all this time
with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip?
He that seeth me, seeth the Father: and how
sayest thou, Show us the Father?
10
Believest thou not, that I am in my Father,
and my Father in me? And the words which I
speak, I speak not from myself: but my Father,
who dwelleth in me, he doeth these works.
11
Believe, that I am in my Father, and my
Father in me. And if not, believe, at least, on
account of the works.
12
Verily, verily, I say to you: He that believeth in
me, the works which I do, will he also do. And
greater than these will he do, because I go unto
my Father.
13
And what ye shall ask in my name, I will do
for you; that the Father may be glorified in his
Son.
14
And if ye shall ask of me, in my name, I will
do [it].
15
If ye love me, keep my commands.
16
And I will ask of my Father, and he will give
you another Comforter, that he may be with you
for ever,
17
the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, and knoweth
him not: but ye know him, because he abideth
with you, and is in you.
18
I shall not leave you orphans: for I shall come
to you in a little while.
19
And the world will not see me; but ye will see
me. Because I live, ye will live also.
20
In that day ye will know, that I am in my
Father; and that ye are in me, and I in you.
21
He, with whom are my commands, and who
keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. And he
that loveth me, will be loved by my Father: and I
will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: My Lord, how
is it that thou art to manifest thyself to us, and
not to the world?
Jesus answered, and said to him: He that
loveth me, observeth my instruction; and my
Father will love him, and we will come to him,
and make our abode with him.
24
But he that loveth me not, observeth not my
instruction. And the instruction which ye hear, is
not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
25
These things have I said to you, while I was
with you.
26
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, he will teach you
every thing, and will remind you of all that I say
to you.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to
you. It is not as the world giveth, that I give to
you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor be
afraid.
28
Ye have heard what I said to you that I go
away, and come [again] to you. If ye had loved
me, ye would have rejoiced, that I go to my
Father; for my Father is greater than I.
29
And now, lo, I have told you, before it
occurreth; so that when it shall have occurred,
ye may believe.
30
Hereafter I shall not converse much with you;
for the ruler of this world cometh, and hath
nothing in me.
31
But that the world may know, that I love my
Father, and as my Father commanded me, so I
do. Arise; let us go hence.
15:1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the
cultivator.
2
Every branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits,
he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits,
he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits.
3 21
Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the
discourse I have held with you .
4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot yield fruits of itself, unless it abide in the
vine; so also, neither can ye, unless ye abide in
me.
5 23
I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He
that abideth in me, and I in him, he yieldeth
much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing.
6
And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth
as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and
cast it into the fire to be burned.
7
But if ye shall abide in me, and my instructions
shall abide in you, whatever ye shall be pleased
to ask, it will be given to you.
8
In this is the Father glorified, that ye bear
much fruit; and ye will be my disciples.
9
As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved
you: abide ye in the love of me.
10
If ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide
in the love of me, as I have kept the commands
of my Father, and abide in his love.
11
These things have I spoken to you, that my
joy may be in you, and that your joy may be
complete.
12
This is my command, that ye love one
another, as I have loved you.
13
There is no greater love than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends.
14
Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command
you.
15
I no longer call you servants; because a
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I
have called you my friends; because, whatever I
have heard from my Father, I have made known
to you.
16
It is not ye that chose me, but I that have
chosen you; and I have appointed you, that ye
also should go and yield fruits, and that your
fruits should continue; so that whatever ye may
ask of my Father in my name, he may give it
you.
17
These things I command you, that ye should
love one another.
18
And if the world hate you, know ye, that it
hated me before you.
19
And if ye were of the world, the world would
love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for
I have chosen you out of the world; for this
cause, the world hateth you.
20
Remember the word that I spoke to you, That
there is no servant, who is greater than his lord.
If they have persecuted me, they will also
persecute you; and if they have observed my
teaching, they will also observe yours.
But all these things will they do to you, on
account of my name, because they know not
him that sent me.
22
If I had not come and discoursed with them,
sin would not have been to them; but now there
is no excuse for their sins.
He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
24
If I had not wrought before them works which
no other person ever did, sin would not have
been to them: but now they have seen, and
have hated, both me and my Father;
25
so that in them will be fulfilled the word which
is written in their law: They hated me, without a
cause.
26
But when the Comforter shall come, whom I
will send to you from my Father, that Spirit of
truth who proceedeth from the Father, He will
testify of me.
27
And do ye also testify; for ye have been with
me from the beginning.
16:1 . These things have I said to you, that ye
may not be stumbled.
2
For they will eject you from their synagogues;
and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill
you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering
to God.
3
And these things will they do, because they
have not known either my Father, or me.
4
These things have I spoken to you, that when
the time of them cometh, ye may recollect, that I
told you of them. And I did not tell you these
things from the beginning, because I was with
you.
5
But now, I am going to Him that sent me; and
none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
6
And because I have told you these things,
sorrow hath come and hath filled your hearts.
7
But I tell you the truth, that it is profitable for
you that I go away; for, if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will
send him to you.
8
And when he is come, he will convict the world
of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
9
Of sin because they believe not in me:
10
and of righteousness, because I go to my
Father, and ye see me no more:
11
and of Judgment, because the ruler of this
world is judged.
12
Moreover, I have much to say to you: but ye
cannot comprehend [it] now.
13
But when the Spirit of truth shall come, he will
lead you into all the truth. For he will not speak
from his own mind; but whatever he heareth,
that will he speak: and he will make known to
you things to come.
14
He will glorify me; because he will receive of
what is mine, and will show [it] to you.
15
Whatever the Father hath, is mine: therefore
said I to you that he will receive of what is mine,
and will show [it] to you.
16
A little while, and ye will not see me; and
again a little while, and ye will see me; because I
go to the Father.
17
And his disciples said one to another: What is
this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye will
not see me and again a little while, and ye will
see me, because I go to my Father?
18
And they said: What is this little while, of
which he speaketh? We know not what he saith.
19
And Jesus knew, that they desired to ask
him; and he said to them: Are ye debating with
each other, of what I said to you, A little while,
and ye will not see me, and again a little while,
and ye will see me?
20
Verily, verily, I say to you, That ye will weep
and lament: And the world will rejoice, while to
you will be sorrow. But your sorrow will be
turned to joy.
21
A woman, in bringing forth, hath sorrow, for
the day of her travail hath come: but when she
hath brought forth a son, she remembereth not
her anguish, because of the joy that a human
being is born into the world.
22
Ye also now have sorrow; but I will see you
again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will
deprive you of your joy.
23
And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Verily,
verily, I say to you, That whatsoever ye shall ask
of my Father in my name, he will give to you.
24
Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name.
Ask, and ye will receive; that your joy may be
complete.
25
These things have I spoken to you in
allegories: but the hour will come, when I shall
not speak to you in allegories, but I will speak to
you plainly of the Father.
26
In that day ye will ask in my name; and I do
not say to you, that I will pray to the Father for
you;
27
for the Father himself loveth you, because ye
have loved me, and have believed that I
11
proceeded from the presence of the Father .
28
I proceeded forth from before the Father, and
came into the world; and again I leave the world,
and go to the Father.
29
His disciples say to him: Lo, now thou
speakest plainly, and thou utterest no allegory.
30
Now know we, that thou knowest every thing;
and thou hast no need, that any one should ask
thee: by this we believe, that thou didst proceed
from God.
31
Jesus said to them: Do ye believe?
32
Behold, the hour cometh, and hath now
come, when ye will be dispersed, each to his
place; and ye will leave me alone. But I am not
alone, for the Father is with me.
33
These things have I said to you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye will have
trouble: but, take courage, I have vanquished
the world.
17:1 These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said: My Father, the hour is
come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify
thee.
2
As thou hast given him authority over all flesh,
that he might give life eternal to as many as thou
hast given him.
3
And this is life eternal, that they may know
thee, that thou art the only true God, and whom
thou hast sent, Jesus Messiah.
4
I have glorified thee on the earth; the work
which thou gavest me to do, I have finished.
5
And now, my Father, glorify thou me, with that
glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6
I have made known thy name to the men,
whom thou gavest me from the world: thine they
were, and thou gavest them to me; and they
have kept thy word.
7
Now I have known, that whatever thou hast
given me, was from thee.
8
For, the words thou gavest to me, I have given
to them; and they have received them, and have
known certainly, that I came from thy presence;
and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9
And I pray for them; it is not for the world that I
pray, but for them whom thou hast given me, for
they are thine.
10
And all that is mine is thine, and what is thine
is mine; and I am glorified in them.
11
John 16:27 – Most Western Peshitto MSS have “of
God.” However, The Eastern Peshitta has “the
Father.”
11
Henceforth I am not in the world; but these
are in the world, and I go to thee. Holy Father,
keep them in that thy name, which thou hast
given to me; that they may be one, as we are.
12
While I have been with them in the world, I
have kept them in thy name. Those thou gavest
me, have I kept; and none of them is lost, but
the son of perdition, that the scripture might be
fulfilled.
13
But now I come to thee; and these things I
speak in the world, that my joy may be complete
in them.
14
I have given them thy word: and the world
hath hated them, because they are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world.
15
I pray not, that thou wouldst take them out of
the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from
evil:
16
for they are not of the world, even as I am not
of the world.
17
Father, sanctify them by thy truth, thy word is
the truth.
18
As thou didst send me into the world, so have
I also sent them into the world.
19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
also may be sanctified by the truth.
20
And it is not for them only that I pray, but also
for those who shall believe in me through their
discourse;
21
that they all may be one; as thou, my Father,
[art] in me, and I in thee; that they also may be
one in us; so that the world may believe, that
thou didst send me.
22
And the glory which thou gavest me, I have
given them; that they may be one, as we are
one.
23
I in them, and thou in me; that they may be
perfected into one; and that the world may know
that thou didst send me, and that thou hast
loved them as also thou hast loved me.
24
Father, I desire that those whom thou hast
given me, may also be with me where I am; that
they may see that glory of mine which thou hast
given me, as thou lovedst me before the
foundation of the world.
25
My righteous Father, the world hath not
known thee; but I have known thee, and these
have known, that thou didst send me.
26
And I have made known to them thy name;
and I will make it known; so that the love, with
which thou lovedst me, may be in them, and I in
them.
18:1 These things spake Jesus, and went forth
with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where
there was a garden, into which he and his
disciples entered.
2
And Judas also, the betrayer, knew the place;
because Jesus often there met with his
disciples.
3
Then Judas received a regiment, and from the
presence of the chief priests and Pharisees he
had officials; and he came to the place with
lanterns and lamps and weapons.
4
And Jesus, as he knew every thing that was to
befall him, went forth and said to them: Whom
seek ye?
5
They say to him: Jesus the Nazarean. Jesus
said to them: I am he. And Judas the betrayer
was also standing with them.
6
And when Jesus said to them, I am he, they
drew back and fell upon the ground.
7
And again Jesus asked them: Whom seek ye?
And they said: Jesus the Nazarean.
8
Jesus said to them: I have told you that I am
he; and if ye seek me, let these go away:
9
that the speech might be fulfilled, which he
uttered: Of them, whom thou hast given me, I
have lost not even one.
10
And Simon Cephas had upon him a sword;
and he drew it, and smote a servant of the high
priest, and cut off his right ear. And the servant's
name was Malchus.
11
And Jesus said to Cephas: Put the sword into
its sheath. The cup which my Father hath given
me, shall I not drink it?
12
Then the regiment and the chiliarchs and the
officials of the Jews laid hold of Jesus, and
bound him;
13
and they led him first to the presence of
Annas; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas,
who was the high priest of that year.
14
And it was Caiaphas who counselled the
Jews, that it was expedient, one man should die
for the people.
15
And Simon Cephas and one other of the
disciples went after Jesus. And that other
disciple knew the high priest; and he entered
with Jesus into the hall.
16
But Simon stood without at the door; and that
other disciple, who knew the high priest, went
out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought in
Simon.
17
And the maid who kept the door, said to
Simon: Art not thou also one of this man's
disciples? And he said: I am not.
18
And the servants and officials were standing,
and had placed a fire to warm themselves
19
And the high priest interrogated Jesus
respecting his disciples, and respecting his
doctrine.
20
And Jesus said to him: I have discoursed
openly with the people, and have at all times
taught in the synagogue and in the temple,
where all the Jews assemble; and I have uttered
nothing in private.
21
Why dost thou interrogate me? Ask them who
have heard, what I said to them: lo, they know
what I have said.
22
And as he said these things, one of the
officials standing by, smote the cheek of Jesus,
and said to him: Givest thou such an answer to
the high priest?
23
Jesus replied, and said to him: If I have
spoken evil bear witness of that evil; but if well,
why smitest thou me?
24
Now Annas had sent Jesus bound to
Caiaphas the high priest.
25
And Simon Cephas was standing and
warming himself; and they said to him: Art not
thou also one of his disciples? And he denied,
and said: I am not.
26
And one of the servants of the high priest, a
kinsman of him whose ear Simon cut off, said to
him: Did I not see thee with him in the garden?
27
And again Simon denied: and at that moment
the cock crew.
28
And they led Jesus from the presence of
Caiaphas unto the Praetorium; and it was
morning. But they did not enter the Praetorium,
lest they should defile themselves before they
had eaten the passover.
29
And Pilate went forth to them without, and
said to them: What accusation have ye against
this man?
30
They replied, and said to him: If he were not a
malefactor, we should not have delivered him up
to thee.
31
Pilate said to them: Take ye him, and judge
him according to your law. The Jews said to him:
It is not lawful for us to put a man to death:
32
that the speech of Jesus might be fulfilled,
when he made known by what death he was to
die.
33
And Pilate went into the Praetorium, and
called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king
of the Jews?
34
Jesus said to him: Sayest thou this of thyself,
or have others said [it] to thee of me?
35
Pilate said to him: Am I a Jew? Thy
countrymen and the chief priests have delivered
thee to me. What hast thou done?
36
Jesus said to him: My kingdom is not of this
world. If my kingdom were of this world, my
servants would have fought, that I might not be
delivered up to the Jews: but now, my kingdom
is not from hence.
37
Pilate said to him . Then thou art a king?
Jesus said to him: Thou hast said, that I am a
king. For this was I born; and for this came I into
the world, that I might bear testimony to the
truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my
voice.
38
Pilate said to him: What is the truth? And as
he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and
said to them: I find not any crime in him.
39
And ye have a custom that I should release
one to you at the passover; will ye, therefore,
that I release to you this king of the Jews?
40
And they all cried out, and said: Not this man,
but Barabbas. Now this Barabbas was a robber.
19:1 Then Pilate scourged Jesus.
2
And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns,
and put it on his head; and they clothed him in
purple garments:
3
and they said: Hail, king of the Jews! and
smote him on his cheeks.
4
And Pilate went out again, and said to them:
Lo, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that
I find against him no offence whatever.
5
And Jesus went forth, having on him the
crown of thorns, and the purple garments. And
Pilate said to them: Behold, the man!
6
And when the chief priests and officials saw
him, they cried out, and said: Hang him; hang
him. Pilate said to them: Take ye him, and
crucify him; for I find no offence in him.
7
The Jews say to him: We have a law, and,
according to our law, he deserveth death,
because he made himself the Son of God.
8
And when Pilate heard that declaration, he
feared the more.
9
And he went again into the Praetorium; and he
said to Jesus: Whence art thou? And Jesus
gave him no answer.
10
Pilate said to him: Wilt thou not speak to me?
Knowest thou not, that I have authority to
release thee, and have authority to crucify thee?
11
Jesus said to him: Thou wouldst have no
authority at all over me, if it were not given to
thee from on high: therefore his sin who
delivered me up to thee, is greater than thine.
12
And for this reason, Pilate was disposed to
release him. But the Jews cried out: If thou
release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend:
for whoever maketh himself a king, is the
adversary of Caesar.
13
And when Pilate heard this declaration, he
brought Jesus forth, and sat upon the tribunal, in
a place called the pavement of stones; but in
Hebrew it is called Gabbatha.
14
And it was the preparation for the passover;
and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to
the Jews: Behold, your king.
15
But they cried out: Away with him, away with
him; hang him, hang him. Pilate said to them:
Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests said
to him: We have no king, but Caesar.
16
Then he delivered him to them, that they
might crucify him. And they took Jesus, and led
him away,
17
bearing his cross, to a place called a Skull,
and in Hebrew called Golgotha;
18
where they crucified him; and two others with
him, the one on this side, and the other on that,
and Jesus in the middle.
19
And Pilate also wrote a tablet, and affixed it to
his cross. And thus it was written: THIS IS
JESUS THE NAZAREAN, KING OF THE JEWS.
20
And many of the Jews read this label;
because the place where Jesus was crucified,
was near to Jerusalem; and it was written in
Hebrew and Greek and Latin.
21
And the chief priests said to Pilate: Write not
that he is king of the Jews, but that he said I am
king of the Jews.
22
Pilate said: What I have written, I have
written.
23
And the soldiers, when they had crucified
Jesus, took his garments and made four parcels
of them, a parcel for each of the soldiers. And
his tunic was without seam from the top, woven
throughout.
24
And they said one to another: We will not
rend it, but will cast the lot upon it, whose it shall
he. And the scripture was fulfilled, which said:
They divided my garments among them; and
upon my vesture they cast the lot. These things
did the soldiers.
25
And there were standing near the cross of
Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, and
Mary [the wife] of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalena.
26
And Jesus saw his mother, and that disciple
whom he loved, standing by, and he said to his
mother: Woman, behold, thy son.
27
And he said to that disciple: Behold, thy
mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her
near himself.
28
After these things, Jesus knew that every
thing was finished; and, that the scripture might
be fulfilled, he said: I thirst.
29
And a vessel was standing there, full of
vinegar. And they filled a sponge with the
vinegar, and put it on a hyssop [stalk], and bore
it to his mouth.
30
And when Jesus had received the vinegar, he
said: Lo; Done. And he bowed his head, and
yielded up his spirit.
31
And because it was the preparation, the Jews
said: These bodies must not remain all night
upon the cross: because the sabbath was
dawning; and the day of that sabbath was a
great day. And they requested of Pilate, that
they should break the legs of those crucified,
and take them down.
32
And the soldiers came, and broke the legs of
the first, and of the other that was crucified with
him.
33
But when they came to Jesus, they saw that
he was already dead; and they broke not his
legs.
34
But one of the soldiers thrust a spear into his
side; and immediately there issued out blood
and water.
35
And he who saw [it], hath testified: and his
testimony is true: and he knoweth, that he
speaketh the truth, that ye also may believe.
36
For these things occurred, that the scripture
might be fulfilled, which said: A bone of him shall
not be broken.
37
And again another scripture, which saith:
They will look on him, whom they pierced.
38
After these things, Joseph of Ramath, for he
was a disciple of Jesus, and kept concealed
through fear of the Jews, requested of Pilate,
that he might take away the body of Jesus. And
Pilate permitted. And he came, and bore away
the body of Jesus.
39
And there came also Nicodemus, he who
previously came to Jesus by night, and he
brought with him a compound of myrrh and
aloes, about a hundred pounds.
40
and they bore away the body of Jesus, and
wound it in linens and aromatics, as it is the
custom of the Jews to bury.
41
And there was a garden in the place where
Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new
sepulchre in which no person had ever been
laid.
42
And there they laid Jesus, because the
sabbath had commenced, and because the
sepulchre was near.
20:1 And the first day of the week, in the
morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalena
came to the sepulchre: and she saw that the
stone was removed from the grave.
2
And she ran, and came to Simon Cephas, and
to that other disciple whom Jesus loved, and
said to them: They have taken away our Lord

from the sepulchre, and I know not where they
have laid him.
3
And Simon set out, and the other disciple, and
they were going to the sepulchre.
4
And they both ran together; but that disciple
outran Simon, and came first to the sepulchre.
5
And he looked in, and saw the linen cloths
lying: but he did not go in.
6 23
And after him came Simon; and he entered
the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying;
7
and the napkin, that had been wrapped about
his head, was not with the linen cloths, but was
folded up, and laid in a place by itself.
8
Then entered also the disciple who came first
to the sepulchre; and he saw, and believed.
9
For they had not yet learned from the
scriptures, that he was to arise from the dead.
10
And those disciples went away again to their
place.
11
But Mary remained standing at the sepulchre,
and weeping; and as she wept, she looked into
the sepulchre
12
and saw two angels in white, who were
sitting, one at the pillows and one at the feet,
where the body of Jesus was laid.
13
And they said to her: Woman, why weepest
thou? She said to them: Because they have
taken away my Lord, and I know not where they
have laid him
14
Having said this, she turned round, and saw
Jesus standing, but did not know that it was
Jesus.
15
Jesus said to her: Woman, why weepest
thou? and, whom dost thou seek? And she
supposed that he was the gardener: and she
said to him: My lord, if thou hast borne him
away, tell me where thou hast laid him, [and] I
will go and take him away.
16
Jesus said to her: Mary! And she turned, and
said to him in Hebrew: Rabbuni; which is
interpreted Teacher.
17
Jesus said to her: Touch me not; for not yet
have I ascended to my Father. But go to my
brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my
Father and your Father, and to my God and your
God.
18
Then came Mary Magdalena, and told the
disciples that she had seen our Lord; and that
he had said these things to her.
19
And on the evening of that first day of the
week, the doors being shut where the disciples
were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and
stood in the midst of them, and said to them:
Peace be with you.
20
Having said this, he showed them his hands
and his side. And the disciples rejoiced, when
they saw our Lord.
21
And Jesus said to them; Peace be with you.
As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.
22
And as he said these things, he breathed on
them, and said to them: Receive ye the Holy
Spirit.
If ye shall remit sins to any one, they will be
remitted to him; and if ye shall retain [those] of
any one, they will be retained.
24
But Thomas, who was called the Twin, one of
the twelve, was not there with them, when Jesus
came.
25
And the disciples said to him: We have seen
our Lord. But he said to them: Unless I see in his
hands the places of the nails, and put my fingers
into them, and extend my hand to his side, I will
not believe.
26
And after eight days, the disciples were again
within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came,
while the doors were closed, stood in the midst,
and said to them: Peace be with you.
27
And he said to Thomas: Reach hither thy
finger, and look at my hands; and reach out thy
hand and extend it to my side: and be not
incredulous, but believing.
28
And Thomas answered, and said to him: My
Lord, and my God!
29
Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen
me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have
not seen me, yet believe.
30
And many other signs did Jesus before his
disciples, which are not written in this book.
31
But these are written, that ye may believe that
Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God; and that
when ye believe, ye may have life eternal by his
name.
21:1 After these things, Jesus showed himself
again to his disciples, at the sea of Tiberias: and
he showed himself thus:
2
There were together, Simon Cephas, and
Thomas called the Twin, and Nathaniel who was
of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee,
and two other of the disciples.
3
Simon Cephas said to them: I will go [and]
catch fishes. They said to him: We will go with
thee. And they went, and embarked in a ship:
and that night, they caught nothing.
4
And when it was morning, Jesus stood on the
shore of the sea: and the disciples did not know
that it was Jesus.
5
And Jesus said to them: Lads, have ye any
thing to eat? They say to him: No.
6
He said to them: Cast your net on the right fell on the breast of Jesus at the supper, and
side of the ship, and ye will find them. And they said, My Lord, who is it will betray thee?
21
cast; and they could not draw up the net, Him Cephas saw, and said to Jesus: My
because of the multitude of fishes it contained. Lord, as for this man, what?
7 22
And that disciple whom Jesus loved, said to Jesus said to him: If I will, that he abide here
Cephas: That is our Lord. And Simon, when he until I come, what [is that] to thee? Follow thou
heard that it was our Lord, took his tunic, and me.
23
girded his loins, for he had been naked, and And this saying went forth among the
threw himself into the sea, to go to Jesus. brethren, that this disciple would not die. Yet
8
But the other disciples came in the ship, for Jesus did not say, that he would not die; but, If I
they were not very far from the land, only about will that he abide here until I come, what [is that]
two hundred cubits, and they dragged the net to thee.
24
with the fishes. This is the disciple who hath testified of all
9
And when they came upon the land, they saw these things, and hath written them: and we
coals placed, and fish laid on them, and bread. know, that his testimony is true.
10 25
And Jesus said to them: Bring [some] of the And there are also many other things, which
fishes, which ye have just caught. Jesus did; which, if written out with particularity,
11
And Simon Cephas embarked, and drew the the world itself, as I suppose, would not suffice
net to land, full of huge fishes, one hundred and for the books that would be written.
fifty and three. And with all this weight, the net
was not rent.
12
And Jesus said to them: Come and dine. And
no one of the disciples presumed to ask him,
who he was; for they knew that it was our Lord.
13
And Jesus came, and took bread and fishes,
and gave to his disciples.
14
This is the third time that Jesus appeared to
his disciples when he had arisen from the dead.
15
And when they had dined, Jesus said to
Simon Cephas: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou
me, more than these do? He said to him: Yes,
my Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus
said to him: Feed my lambs for me.
16
Again, he said to him the second time:
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He said to
him: Yes, my Lord; thou knowest that I love
thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep for me.
17
Again, Jesus said to him the third time:
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And it
grieved Cephas, that he said to him the third
time, Lovest thou me; and he said to him: My
Lord, thou understandest all things, thou
knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him:
Feed my sheep for me.
18
Verily, verily, I say to thee: When thou wast
young, thou girdedst thy own loins, and walkedst
whither it pleased thee: but when thou shalt be
old, thou wilt extend thy hands, and another will
gird thy loins for thee, and will conduct thee
whither thou wouldst not.
19
And this he said, to show by what death he
was to glorify God. And having said these
things, he said to him: Follow me.
20
And Simon turned himself, and saw coming
after him, that disciple whom Jesus loved, who
The Book of Acts
1:1 The former book have I written, O
Theophilus concerning all the things which our
Lord Jesus Messiah began to do and teach,
2
until the day when he was taken up, after he
had instructed those legates whom he had
chosen by the Holy Spirit.
3
To whom also he showed himself alive after
he had suffered, by numerous signs, during forty
days, while he was seen by them, and spoke of
the kingdom of God.
4 18
And when he had eaten bread with them, he
instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem,
but to wait for the promise of the Father, which
(said he) ye have heard from me.
5 19
For John baptized with water; but ye will be
baptized with the Holy Spirit after not many
days.
6
And they, when assembled, asked him and
said to him: Our Lord, wilt thou at this time
restore the kingdom to Israel?
7
He said to them: It is not yours, to know the
time or times which God hath placed in his own
power.
8
But when the Holy Spirit shall come upon you,
ye will receive energy, and will be witnesses for
me in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and also
among the Samaritans, and unto the ends of the
earth.
9
And when he had said these things, while they
beheld him, he was taken up, and a cloud
received him, and he was hidden from their
eyes.
10
And while they were looking toward heaven,
as he departed, two men were found standing
near them, in white garments,
11
and saying to them: Ye Galilean men, why
stand ye and look toward heaven? This Jesus,
who is taken up from you to heaven, will so
come, as ye have seen him ascend to heaven.
12
And afterwards they returned to Jerusalem
from the mount called the place of Olives, which
was near to Jerusalem, and distant from it about
seven furlongs.
13
And when they had entered, they went to an
upper chamber; where were Peter, and John,
and James, and Andrew, and Philip, and
Thomas, and Matthew, and Bartholomew, and
James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes,
and Judas the son of James.
14
All these unitedly persevered in prayer, with
one soul, together with the women, and with
Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
15
And in those days stood up Simon Cephas in
the midst of the disciples, (the persons there
assembled being about one hundred and
twenty,) and said:
16
Men, brethren, it was right that the scripture
should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake,
by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who
was guide to them that apprehended Jesus.
17
For he was numbered with us, and had a part
in this ministry.
He purchased a field with the wages of sin;
and he fell upon his face on the ground, and
burst in the middle, and all his entrails were
poured out.
And this was known to all that dwelt at
Jerusalem; so that the field was called, in the
language of the country, Aceldama, which is
interpreted Field of Blood.
20
For it is written, in the book of Psalms: Let his
habitation be desolate, and let no resident be in
it; and let another take his service.
21
It should therefore be, that one of these
persons, who have been with us all the time that
our Lord Jesus went in and out with us,
22
commencing from the baptism of John, unto
the day he was taken up from us,---should be,
with us, a witness of his resurrection.
23
And they proposed two, Joseph called
Barsabas, whose surname was Justus, and
Matthias.
24
And when they had prayed, they said: Thou,
LORD, knowest what is in the hearts of all,
manifest which thou hast chosen of these two,
25
that he should take part in this ministry and
legateship, from which Judas broke away, that
he might go to his own place.
26
And they cast lots, and it came upon
Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven
legates.
2:1 And when the days of pentecost were fully
come, while they were all assembled together,
2
suddenly there was a sound from heaven, as
of a violent wind; and the whole house where
they were sitting was filled with it.
3
And there appeared to them tongues, which
were divided like flame; and they rested upon
each of them.
4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
and began to speak in diverse languages, as the
Spirit gave them to speak.
5 23
Now there were resident at Jerusalem persons
who feared God, Jews from all the nations under
heaven.
6
And when that sound occurred, all the people
collected together; and they were agitated,
because they every one heard them speaking in
their own languages.
7 25
And they were all astonished, and wondered,
saying one to another: All these who speak
behold, are they not Galileans?
8 26
And how do we hear, each his own language,
in which we were born?
9 27
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and
those dwelling between the rivers, Jews and
Cappadocians, and those from the region of
Pontus and of Asia,
10
and those from the region of Phrygia, and of
Pamphylia, and of Egypt, and of the parts of
Lybia near Cyrene, and those who have come
from Rome, Jews and proselytes;
11
and those from Crete, and Arabians.---Lo, we
hear them speak in our own languages the
wonders of God.
12
And they all wondered and were astonished,
saying one to another: From whom is this thing?
13
Others however ridiculed them, saying: They
have drunken new wine, and are intoxicated.
14
And afterwards Simon Cephas rose up, with
the eleven legates, and elevated his voice, and
said to them: Men, Jews, and all ye that reside
at Jerusalem; be this known to you, and hearken
ye to my words.
15
For these are not intoxicated, as ye suppose:
for lo, it is yet but the third hour.
16
But this is what was spoken by Joel the
prophet:
17
It shall be in the last days, saith God, that I
will pour my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons
shall prophesy, and your daughters and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams.
18
And upon my servants and my handmaids
will I pour my Spirit, in those days, and they shall
prophesy.
19
And I will give signs in heaven, and prodigies
on earth, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
20
And the sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before that great and
fearful day of the LORD come.
21
And it shall be, that whoever will call on the
name of the LORD, shall live.
22
Men, sons of Israel, hear ye these words:
Jesus the Nazarean, a man made manifest
among you by God, by those deeds of power
and prodigies which God wrought among you by
his hand, as ye yourselves know;
him, being hereto appointed by the
prescience and the good pleasure of God,---ye
have delivered into the hands of the wicked; and
have crucified and slain.
24
But God hath resuscitated him, and hath
loosed the cords of the grave; because it could
not be, that he should be held in the grave.
For David said of him: I foresaw my Lord at
all times; for he is on my right hand, so that I
shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart doth rejoice, and my glory
exult, and also my body shall abide in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave,
nor wilt thou give thy pious one to see
corruption.
28
Thou hast revealed to me the path of life;
thou wilt fill me with joy with thy presence.
29
Men, brethren, I may speak to you explicitly
of the patriarch David, that he died, and also
was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this
day.
30
For he was a prophet, and he knew, that God
had sworn to him by an oath: Of the fruit of thy
bowels, I will seat [one] on thy throne.
31
And he foresaw, and spoke of the
resurrection of Messiah, that he was not left in
the grave, neither did his body see corruption.
32
This Jesus hath God resuscitated; and we all
are his witnesses.
33
And he it is, who is exalted by the right hand
of God, and hath received from the Father a
promise respecting the Holy Spirit, and hath sent
this gift which, lo, ye see and hear.
34
For David hath not ascended into heaven;
because he himself said: The LORD said to my
Lord, seat thyself at my right hand,
35
until I shall place thy enemies a footstool to
thy feet.
36
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know,
assuredly, that God hath made that Jesus whom
ye crucified, to be LORD and Messiah.
37
And when they heard these things, they were
agitated in their heart; and they said to Simon
and to the rest of the legates: Brethren, what
shall we do?
38
Simon said to them: Repent, and be baptized
every one of you, in the name of the LORD
Jesus, for the remission of sins; so that ye may
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39
For the promise is to you, and to your
children, and to all those afar off whom God will
call.
40
And in many other words he testified to them,
and entreated of them, saying: Live ye from this
perverse generation.
41
And some of them readily received his
discourse, and believed, and were baptized. And
there were added, on that day, about three
thousand souls.
42
And they persevered in the doctrine of the
legates; and were associated together in prayer,
and in breaking the eucharist.
43
And fear was on every mind: and many signs
and prodigies were [wrought] by the hand of the
legates in Jerusalem.
44
And all they who believed, were together; and
whatever belonged to them, was of the
community.
45
And they who had a possession, sold it, and
divided to each one as he had need.
46
And they continued daily in the temple, with
one soul: and at home, they broke bread and
took food rejoicing, and in the simplicity of their
heart.
47
And they praised God, and had favor with all
the people. And our Lord added daily to the
assembly those who became alive.
3:1 And it occurred, as Simon Cephas and John
went together up to the temple, at the time of
prayer, being the ninth hour,
2 18
that, lo, those accustomed to bring a man
lame from his mother's womb, brought him and
laid him at the gate of the temple called
Beautiful; that he might ask alms of those going
into the temple.
3
This man, when he saw Simon and John
going into the temple, asked them to give him
alms.
4 20
And Simon and John looked on him, and said
to him: Look on us.
5 21
And he looked on them, expecting to receive
something from them.
6
Simon said to him: Gold and silver, I have not;
but what I have, I give to thee; in the name of
our Lord Jesus Messiah, the Nazarean, rise up
and walk.
7
And he took him by the right hand, and raised
him up: and forthwith, his feet and his heels
recovered strength.
8
And he sprang, stood up, and walked: and he
entered with them into the temple, walking, and
leaping, and praising God.
9
And all the people saw him, as he walked and
praised God.
10
And they knew that he was the beggar, who
sat daily and asked alms, at the gate called
Beautiful: and they were filled with wonder and
admiration at what had occurred.
11
And as he held fast to Simon and John, all
the people admiring ran to them at the portico
called Solomon's.
12
And when Simon saw [it], he answered and
said to them: Men, sons of Israel, why do ye
wonder at this? or why do ye gaze on us, as if
by our own power or authority we had made this
man to walk?
13
The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of
Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his
Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied in
the presence of Pilate, when he would have
justified him and set him free.
14
But ye denied the holy and just One, and
demanded that a murderer should be released
to you.
15
And that Prince of life ye slew; and him, hath
God raised from the dead, and all of us are
witnesses of it.
16
And, by the faith in his name, he hath
strengthened and cured this man, whom ye see
and know; and faith in him hath given the man
this soundness before you all.
17
And now, my brethren, I know that through
misapprehensions ye did this, as did also your
chiefs:
and God, according as he had previously
announced by the mouth of all the prophets that
the Messiah would suffer, hath in this manner
fulfilled [it].
19
Repent, therefore, and be converted; that so
your sins may be blotted out, and times of rest
may come to you from before the face of the
LORD;
and he may send to you him, who was made
ready for you, Jesus the Messiah:
whom the heavens must retain, until the
completion of the times of those things, which
God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy
prophets of old.
22
For Moses said: A prophet, like me, will the
LORD raise up to you, from among your brethren;
to him hearken ye, in all that he shall say to you.
23
And it will be, that every soul who will not
hearken to that prophet, that soul shall perish
from his people.
24
And all the prophets that have been, from
Samuel and those after him, have spoken and
proclaimed of these days.
25
Ye are the children of the prophets: and that
covenant which God made with our fathers,---
when he said to Abraham, that in thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be blessed,
26
he hath first established to you: and God hath
sent his Son to bless you, if ye will be converted,
and repent of your wickedness.

4:1 And while they were speaking these words
to the people, the priests and the Sadducees
and the rulers of the temple rose up against
them;
2
being angry with them, that they taught the
people, and preached a resurrection from the
dead by the Messiah.
3
And they laid hands on them, and kept them
until the next day; because evening was drawing
near.
4 21
And many who had heard the word, believed;
and they were, in number, about five thousand
men.
5
And the next day, the rulers and the Elders
and the Scribes assembled;
6
and also Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas,
and John, and Alexander, and they who were of
the kindred of the high priests.
7
And when they had set them in the midst, they
interrogated them: By what power or what name,
have ye done this?
8
Then Simon Cephas was filled with the Holy
Spirit, and said to them: Ye rulers of the people,
and Elders of the house of Israel, hear ye.
9
If we are judged by you this day, respecting
the good deed done to the infirm man, by what
means he was healed;
10
be it known to you, and to all the people of
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Messiah the
Nazarean, whom ye crucified, and whom God
hath raised from the dead, lo, by him, doth this
[man] stand here before you recovered.
11
This is the stone, which ye builders rejected;
and it hath become the head of the corner.
12
Neither is there deliverance in any other; for
there is not another name under heaven, which
is given to men, whereby to live.
13
And when they heard the speech of Simon
and John, which they pronounced confidently,
they reflected that these were unlearned and
plebeian men, and they were surprised at them,
and recognized them as having been conversant
with Jesus.
14
And they saw that the lame man, who had
been healed, stood near them; and they could
say nothing to confront them.
15
Then they commanded to remove them from
the presence of the council; and said one to
another:
16
What shall we do to these men? For lo, that a
manifest sign hath been wrought by them, is
known to all that reside at Jerusalem, and we
cannot deny it.
17
But that the fame of it spread no further, let
us interdict their speaking any more to any man
in this name.
18
And they called them, and commanded them
not to speak nor to teach at all in the name of
Jesus.
19
Simon Cephas and John answered, and said
to them: Whether it be right before God, that we
hearken to you more than to God, judge ye.
20
For we cannot but speak that which we have
seen and heard.
And they threatened them, and dismissed
them. For they found no ground for punishing
them, because of the people: for every one
praised God for what had been done;
22
for the man, on whom this sign of healing had
been wrought, was more than forty years old.
23
And when they were dismissed, they went to
their brethren, and told them all that the priests
and Elders had said.
24
And they, when they heard [it], unitedly lifted
up their voice to God and said: LORD, thou art
God, who hast made heaven, and earth, and
seas, and every thing in them.
25
And it is thou who hast said, by the Holy Spirit
in the mouth of David thy servant: Why do the
nations rage, and the people imagine a vain
thing?
26
The kings of the earth and the potentates
stood up, and they consulted together, against
the LORD, and against his anointed.
27
For, in reality, against thy holy Son Jesus
whom thou hast anointed, Herod and Pilate, with
the Gentiles and the congregation of Israel, have
been combined together in this city,
28
to do whatever thy hand and thy pleasure
previously marked out to be done.
29
And also now, LORD, behold and see their
menaces: and grant to thy servants, that they
may proclaim thy word boldly,
30
while thou extendest thy hand for cures and
prodigies, to be done in the name of thy holy
Son Jesus.
31
And when they had prayed and made
supplications, the place in which they were
assembled was shaken; and they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God
boldly.
32
And in the assembly of the persons that
believed, there was one soul, and one mind: and
no one of them said, of the property he
possessed, that it was his own; but whatever
was theirs, it was the community's.
33
And with great power, the legates testified to
the resurrection of Jesus Messiah: and great
grace was with them all.
34
And no one among them was destitute; for
those who possessed lands or houses, sold, and
brought the price of what was sold,
35
and placed [it] at the feet of the legates; and
distribution was made to every one, as he had
need.
36
And Joseph, who by the legates was
surnamed Barnabas, (which is interpreted Son
of Consolation,) a Levite of the country of
Cyprus,
37
had a field: and he sold it, and brought the
price of it, and laid [it] before the feet of the
legates.
5:1 And a certain man whose name was
Ananias, with his wife whose name was
Sapphira, sold his field,
2 19
and carried away [part] of the price and
concealed it, his wife consenting; and he
brought [a part] of the money, and laid [it] before
the feet of the legates.
3
And Simon said to him: Ananias, why hath
Satan so filled thy heart, that thou shouldst lie
against the Holy Spirit, and conceal of the
money of the price of the field?
4
Was it not thine own before it was sold? And
when sold, again thou hadst authority over the
price of it. Why hast thou set thy heart to do this
purpose? Thou hast not lied against men, but
against God.
5 23
And when Ananias heard these words, he fell
down, and died. And great fear was upon all
them that heard [of it].
6 24
And the young men among them arose, and
gathered him up, and carried [him] out, and
buried him.
7 25
And when three hours had passed, his wife
also came in, without knowing what had
occurred.
8 26
Simon said to her: Tell me, if ye sold the field
for this price? And she said: Yes, for this price.
9
Simon said to her: Since ye have been equals
in tempting the Spirit of the LORD, lo, the feet of
the buriers of thy husband are at the door, and
they will carry thee out.
10
And immediately she fell before their feet,
and died. And those young men came in, and
found her dead; and they took up, carried forth,
and buried her by the side of her husband.
11
And great fear was on all the assembly, and
on all them that heard [it].
12
And there were many signs and prodigies
wrought by the legates among the people. And
they were all assembled together in the porch of
Solomon.
13
And of the others, no one ventured to come
near them; but the people magnified them.
14
And the more were those added who feared
the LORD, a multitude both of men and of
women.
15
So that they brought out into the streets the
sick, laid on beds, that when Simon should pass,
at least his shadow might cover them.
16
And many came to them from other cities
around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those
who had unclean spirits; and they were all
cured.
17
And the high priest was filled with indignation,
and all those with him who were of the doctrine
of the Sadducees.
18
And they laid hands on the legates, and took
and bound them in prison.
Then the angel of the LORD, by night, opened
the door of the prison, and let them out; and said
to them:
20
Go, stand in the temple, and speak to the
people all these words of life.
21
And in the morning, they went and entered
into the temple, and taught. And the high priest
and those with him, convoked their associates
and the Elders of Israel, and sent to the prison to
bring forth the legates.
22
And when those sent by them went, they
found them not in the prison; and they returned
and came back,
and said: We found the prison carefully
closed, and also the keepers standing before the
doors; and we opened, but found no one there.
And when the chief priests and rulers of the
temple heard these words, they were astonished
at them; and they studied what this could mean.
And one came and informed them: Those
men, whom ye shut up in the prison, lo, they are
standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
Then went the rulers with attendants, to bring
them without violence; for they feared, lest the
people should stone them.
27
And when they had brought them, they
placed them before the whole council; and the
high priest began to say to them:
28
Did we not strictly charge you, to teach no
person in this name? And behold, ye have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine; and ye would
bring the blood of this man upon us.
29
And Simon, with the legates, answered and
said to them: God is to be obeyed, rather than
men.
30
The God of our fathers hath raised up that
Jesus, whom ye slew when ye hanged him on a
tree.
31
Him hath God established as a head and
vivifier; and hath exalted him to his own right
hand, so that he might give repentance and
remission of sins to Israel.
32
And we are the witnesses of these things;
and also the Holy Spirit, whom God giveth to
them that believe in him.
33
And when they heard these things, they
burned with indignation, and thought of putting
them to death.
34
Then rose up one of the Pharisees whose
name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, and
honored by all the people; and he directed them
to put the legates aside for a short time.
35
And he said, to them: Men, sons of Israel,
take heed to yourselves, and consider what ye
ought to do in regard to these men.
36
For before this time, rose up Theudas, and
said of himself, that he was some great one; and
there went after him about four hundred men.
And he was slain; and they who went after him,
were dispersed and became as nothing.
37
And after him, rose up Judas a Galilean, in
the days when the people were enrolled for the
capitation tax; and he seduced much people
after him. And he died, and all they that went
after him were dispersed.
38
And now, I say to you: Desist from these
men, and let them alone. For if this device and
this work originate from men, they will dissolve
and come to nothing.
39
But if it be from God, it is not in your power to
frustrate it: that ye may not be found placing
yourselves in opposition to God.---And they
assented to him.
40
And they called the legates, and scourged
them, and commanded them not to teach in the
name of Jesus, and dismissed them.
41
And they went from before them, rejoicing
that they were worthy to suffer abuse on account
of that name.
42
And they ceased not to teach daily, in the
temple and at home, and to preach concerning
our Lord Jesus Messiah.
6:1 And in those days, when the disciples had
become numerous, the Grecian disciples
murmured against the Hebrew, because their
widows were neglected in the daily ministration
[to the needy].
2
And the twelve legates convoked the whole
company of the disciples, and said to them: It is
not proper, that we should neglect the word of
God, and serve tables.
3
Therefore brethren, search out, and elect from
among you, seven men of whom there is good
testimony, men full of the Spirit of the LORD, and
of wisdom; that we may place them over this
business:
4
and we will continue in prayer, and in the
ministration of the word.
5
And this proposal was acceptable before all
the people. And they elected Stephen, a man
who was full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; and
Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon,
and Parmenas, and Nicolas an Antiochian
proselyte.
6
These stood before the legates; and when
they had prayed, they laid the hand on them.
7
And the word of God increased, and the
number of disciples was enlarged at Jerusalem
greatly; and many people from among the Jews,
were obedient to the faith.
8
And Stephen was full of grace and energy;
and he wrought signs and prodigies among the
people.
9
And there rose up some of the synagogue
which is called that of the freed men, Cyrenians,
and Alexandrians, and persons from Cilicia and
from Asia; and they disputed with Stephen.
10
And they could not withstand the wisdom and
the Spirit that spoke by him.
11
Then they sent men, and instructed them to
say: We have heard him speak words of
blasphemy, against Moses and against God.
12
And they excited the people, and the Elders,
and the Scribes; and they came, and rose upon
him, and seized him, and carried him into the
midst of the council.
13
And they set up false witnesses, who said:
This man ceaseth not to utter words contrary to
the law, and against this holy place.
14
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus
the Nazarean will destroy this place, and will
change the rites which Moses delivered to you.
15
And all they who were sitting in the council
looked upon him, and they beheld his face, as
the face of an angel.
7:1 And the high priest asked him: Are these
things so?
2
And he said: Men, brethren, and our fathers,
hear ye. The God of glory appeared to our father
Abraham, when he was between the rivers,
before he came to reside in Charran;
3
and he said to him: Depart from thy country,
and from thy kindred, and go to a land which I
will show to thee.
4
And then Abraham departed from the land of
the Chaldeans, and came and dwelt in Charran.
And from there, after his father had died, God

removed him to this land, in which ye this day
dwell.
5
And he did not give him an inheritance in it,
not even a foot-track: but he promised that he
would give it him, as an inheritance to him and
to his seed, when as yet he had no son.
6 24
And God conversed with him, and said to him:
Thy seed will be a sojourner in a foreign land;
and they will reduce it to servitude, and will treat
it ill, during four hundred years.
7 25
And the nation, to whom they perform
bondservice, I will judge saith God. And
afterwards, they will go out, and will worship me
in this land.
8 26
And he gave them the covenant of
circumcision. And then he begat Isaac, and
circumcised him the eighth day. And Isaac begat
Jacob: and Jacob begat our twelve fathers.
9
And those our fathers envied Joseph, and sold
him into Egypt: but God was with him,
10
and delivered him from all his afflictions; and
gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh,
king of Egypt, and he made him chief over
Egypt, and over all his house.
11
And there was a famine and great distress in
all Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, and our
fathers lacked food.
12
And when Jacob heard that there was bread-
stuff in Egypt, he sent our fathers a first time.
13
And when they went the second time, Joseph
made himself known to his brethren; and the
kindred of Joseph was known to Pharaoh.
14
And Joseph sent and brought is father Jacob,
and all his family; and they were in number
seventy and five souls.
15
And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died
there, he and our fathers.
16
And he was transported to Sychem, and was
deposited in the sepulchre which Abraham
bought with money of the sons of Emmor.
17
And when the time arrived for that which God
had promised to Abraham with an oath, the
people had multiplied and become strong, in
Egypt:
18
until there arose another king over Egypt,
who knew not Joseph.
19
And he dealt craftily with our kindred, and ill-
treated our fathers, and gave orders that their
infants should be cast away, and should not live.
20
At that time was Moses born; and he was
lovely to God: and he was nursed three months
in his father's house.
21
And when he was cast out, by his people, the
daughter of Pharaoh found him, and brought him
up for her own son.
22
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom
of the Egyptians; and he was eminent in his
words, and also in his deeds.
23
And when he was forty years old, it came into
his heart to visit his brethren, the children of
Israel.
And he saw one of the race of his kindred
treated with violence; and he avenged him, and
did him justice, and killed the Egyptian who had
abused him.
And he supposed that his brethren the sons
of Israel would have understood, that by his
hand God would give them deliverance; but they
understood not.
And on another day, he appeared to them, as
they were quarrelling one with another. And he
exhorted them to become reconciled, saying:
Men, ye are brethren; why do ye seek to harm
each other?
27
But he who did the wrong to his fellow,
repulsed him from him, and said to him: Who
constituted thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28
Dost thou seek to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian yesterday?
29
And Moses fled at that speech, and became
a sojourner in the land of Midian. And he had
two sons.
30
And when forty years had been passed by
him there, the angel of the LORD appeared to
him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a fire
that burned in a bush.
31
And when Moses saw [it], he admired the
sight: and as he drew near to behold [it], the
LORD said to him, audibly:
32
I am the God of thy fathers, the God of
Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And
Moses trembled, and dared not to gaze at the
sight.
33
And the LORD said to him: Loose thy shoes
from thy feet; for the ground on which thou
standest is holy.
34
I have attentively seen the affliction of my
people, who are in Egypt; and I have heard their
groans, and have come down to deliver them.
And now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.
35
This Moses, whom they rejected, saying,
Who constituted thee a ruler and judge over us?
this same did God, by the hand of the angel that
appeared to him in the bush, send to them to be
their captain and deliverer.
36
He it was that brought them out, working
signs and wonders and prodigies in the land of
Egypt, and at the sea of rushes, and in the
desert, forty years.
37
This Moses is the man who said to the
children of Israel: A prophet, like me, will the

LORD God raise up to you from among your
brethren; to him give ear.
38
He it was, who was in the congregation in the
wilderness, with the angel that conversed with
him and with our fathers at mount Sinai; and he
it was, received the living words to give [them] to
us.
39
And our fathers would not hearken to him, but
forsook him, and in their hearts returned again to
Egypt;
40
when they said to Aaron: Make us gods who
may go before us; because, as for this Moses
who brought us from the land of Egypt, we know
not what hath become of him.
41
And he made them a calf in those days; and
they offered sacrifices to idols, and were
voluptuous with the work of their hands.
42
And God turned away, and gave them up to
worship the hosts of heaven: as it is written in
the book of the prophets: Did ye, for forty years,
in the wilderness, present to me a slain animal
or a sacrifice, ye sons of Israel?
43
But ye bore the tabernacle of Malchum, and
the star of the god Rephon, images which ye
had made, that ye might bow down to them. I
will transport you beyond Babylon.
44
Lo, the tabernacle of the testimony of our
fathers, was in the wilderness; as he who talked
with Moses, commanded to make it after the
form which he showed him.
45
And this same tabernacle, our fathers, with
Joshua, actually brought into the land which God
gave to them for an inheritance from those
nations which he drove out before them; and it
was borne about, until the days of David.
46
He found favor before God; and he
requested, that he might find a residence for the
God of Jacob.
47
But Solomon built the house.
48
Yet the most High lodgeth not in a work of
[human] hands; as saith the prophet:
49
Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool
under my feet. What is the house, ye will build
for me? saith the LORD: or, what is the place of
my repose?
50
Lo, hath not my hand made all these things?
51
O ye stiff of neck, and uncircumcised in their
heart, and in their hearing; ye do always set
yourselves against the Holy Spirit; as your
fathers, so also ye.
52
For, which of the prophets did not your
fathers persecute and kill, [even] them, who
foretold the coming of the Just One, whom ye
delivered up and slew?
53
And ye have received the law by the
ordination of angels, and have not kept it.
54
And when they heard these things, they were
filled with rage in their souls; and they gnashed
their teeth against him.
55
And he, as he was full of faith and of the Holy
Spirit, looked towards heaven, and saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of
God.
56
And he said: Lo, I see heaven open, and the
Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57
And they cried out with a loud voice, and
stopped their ears, and all rushed upon him.
58
And they seized him, and hurried him out of
the city, and stoned him. And they who testified
against him, laid their clothes at the feet of a
certain young man who was called Saul.
59
And they stoned Stephen, while he prayed
and said: Our Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60
And when he had kneeled down, he cried
with a loud voice, and said: Our Lord, establish
not this sin against them. And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.
8:1 And Saul was consenting and participating
in his death.---And there was, in that day, a
great persecution against the church that was at
Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed, except
the legates, among the villages of Judaea and
likewise among the Samaritans.
2
And believing men gathered up and buried
Stephen. And they lamented over him greatly.
3
And Saul persecuted the church of God,
entering houses, and dragging forth men and
women and committing them to prison.
4
And they who were dispersed, travelled about,
and preached the word of God.
5
And Philip went down to a city of the
Samaritans, and preached concerning the
Messiah.
6
And when the people who were there heard
his discourse, they gave ear to him, and
acquiesced in all that he said; because they saw
the signs which he wrought.
7
For many who were possessed by unclean
spirits, cried with a loud voice, and came out of
them: and others, who were paralytic and lame,
were healed.
8
And there was great joy in that city.
9
And there was a certain man there, whose
name was Simon, who had resided in that city a
long time, and who seduced the people of the
Samaritans by his sorceries, magnifying himself,
and saying, I am a great personage.
10
And they all inclined towards him, great and
small; and they said, This is the mighty power of
God.
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And they acquiesced in him, because for a
long time he had astonished them by his
sorceries.
12
But when they gave credence to Philip, as he
preached the kingdom of God, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Messiah; they were baptized,
both men and women.
13
And Simon himself also believed, and was
baptized, and adhered to Philip. And when he
saw the signs and mighty deeds which were
wrought by his hand, he was surprised and
astonished.
14
And when the legates at Jerusalem, heard
that the people of the Samaritans had received
the word of God, they sent out to them Simon
Cephas and John.
15
And they went down, and prayed over them,
that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
16
For he was not yet on any one of them; and
they had only been baptized in the name of our
Lord Jesus.
17
Then they laid the hand on them; and they
received the Holy Spirit.
18
And when Simon saw that, by the imposition
of a hand of the legates, the Holy Spirit was
given, he offered them money,
19
saying: Give me also this prerogative, that he
on whom I impose a hand, may receive the Holy
Spirit.
20
Simon Cephas said to him: Thy money go
with thee to perdition! because thou hast
supposed, that the gift of God may be
purchased by a worldly substance.
21
Thou hast no part nor lot in this faith; because
thy heart is not right before God.
22
Nevertheless, repent of this thy wickedness,
and entreat of God, if perhaps the guile of thy
heart may be forgiven thee.
23
For I perceive that thou art in the bitter gall
and in the bonds of iniquity.
24
Simon answered and said: Intercede ye with
God for me, that nothing of which ye have
mentioned may come upon me.
25
And Simon and John, when they had
testified, and had taught them the word of God,
returned to Jerusalem. And they had preached
in many villages of the Samaritans.
26
And the angel of the LORD spake with Philip,
and said to him: Arise, go to the south, along the
desert way that leadeth down from Jerusalem to
Gaza.
27
And he arose and went. And there met him a
eunuch, who had come from Cush, an officer of
Candace, queen of the Cushites, who had
charge of all her treasure; and he had come to
worship at Jerusalem.
28
And as he turned to go, he was sitting in his
chariot, and was reading in Isaiah the prophet.
29
And the Holy Spirit said to Philip: Go near,
and join thyself to the chariot.
30
And when he came near, he heard him
reading in Isaiah the prophet; and he said to
him: Understandest thou what thou readest?
31
And he said: How can I understand, unless
some one instruct me? And he requested of
Philip, that he would come up and sit with him.
32
And the section of scripture in which he was
reading, was this: As a lamb to the slaughter he
was led away, and as a sheep before the
shearer is silent, so also he in his humility
opened not his mouth.
33
From prison and from judgment he was
carried: and his generation, who will declare? for
his life is taken away from the earth.
34
And the eunuch said to Philip: I pray thee, of
whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or
of some other person?
35
Then Philip opened his mouth and, from that
scripture, began to preach to him concerning our
Lord Jesus.
36
And as they proceeded on the way, they
came to a certain place in which there was
water. And the eunuch said: Lo, [here is] water;
what doth forbid, that I should be baptized?
37
[And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy
heart, it is allowable. And he answered, and
said: I believe that Jesus Messiah is the Son of
12
God.]
38
And he commanded the chariot to stop; and
they both went down to the water, and Philip
baptized the eunuch.
39
And when they came up from the water, the
Spirit of the LORD caught away Philip; and the
eunuch saw him no more; but he went on his
way rejoicing.
40
And Philip was found at Azotus; and from
there he travelled about, and preached in all the
cities, until he came to Caesarea.
9:1 And Saul was still full of threats and deadly
hatred against the disciples of our Lord.
2
And he requested that a letter from the high
priest might be given him unto Damascus to the
synagogues; that if he should find persons
pursuing this course, men or women, he might
bind and bring them to Jerusalem.
12
Acts 8:37 - This 37th verse is not in any of the
earlier editions, and is excluded from the text of the
London editions of 1816 and 1826
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And as he was going, and began to approach
Damascus, suddenly there was poured upon
him a light from heaven.
4 21
And he fell to the ground; and he heard a
voice which said to him: Saul! Saul! why
persecutest thou me? It will be hard for thee to
kick against the goads.
5
He replied, and said: Who art thou, my Lord?
And our Lord said: I am Jesus the Nazarean,
whom thou persecutest.
6
But arise and go into the city, and there it will
be told thee what thou oughtest to do.
7
And the men who travelled with him in the
way, stood amazed; for they heard merely the
voice, and no one was visible to them.
8
And Saul arose from the ground; and nothing
was visible to him, with his eyes opened. And
they took him by the hand, and led him into
Damascus.
9
And he had no sight for three days; and he
neither ate nor drank.
10
And there was in Damascus a certain
disciple, whose name was Ananias. And the
LORD said to him, in a vision: Ananias! And he
said: Lo, I [am here], my Lord.
11
And our Lord said to him: Arise, go to the
street which is called Straight; and inquire in the
house of Judas, for Saul who is from the city of
Tarsus: for, lo, while he prayed,
12
he saw in vision a man named Ananias, who
came and laid his hand upon him, that his eyes
might be opened.
13
And Ananias said: My Lord, I have heard of
this man, from many, how much evil he hath
perpetrated towards thy saints at Jerusalem.
14
And, lo, here also, he hath authority from the
chief priests, to bind all them that call on thy
name.
15
The LORD said to him: Arise and go; for he is
to me a chosen vessel, to carry my name to the
Gentiles, and to kings, and among the sons of
Israel.
16
For I will show him, how much he is to suffer
on account of my name.
17
Then Ananias went to the house to him; and
he laid his hand upon him, and said to him: Saul,
my brother, our Lord Jesus, he who appeared to
thee by the way as thou camest, hath sent me,
that thy eyes might be opened, and thou be filled
with the Holy Spirit.
18
And immediately there fell from his eyes
something like a scab; and his eyes were
opened. And he arose and was baptized.
19
And he took food, and was invigorated.---And
he was [some] days with the disciples of
Damascus.
And forthwith he announced Jesus, in the
synagogues of the Jews, that he is the Son of
God.
And all they that heard him were amazed;
and they said: Is not this he, who persecuted all
them that call on this name in Jerusalem? And
lo, for this very thing also, was he sent hither,
that he might bind and carry them to the chief
priests.
22
But Saul was the more strengthened; and he
confounded those Jews who dwelt at
Damascus, while he demonstrated that this is
the Messiah.
23
And when he had been there many days, the
Jews formed a conspiracy against him, to kill
him.
24
And the plot which they sought to execute
upon him, was made known to Saul: and they
watched the gates of the city by day and by
night, in order to kill him.
25
Then the disciples placed him in a basket,
and let him down from the wall by night.
26
And he went to Jerusalem; and he wished to
join himself with the disciples, but they were all
afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a
disciple.
27
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to
the legates, and related to them how the LORD
appeared to him in the way, and how he
conversed with him; and how, in Damascus, he
had discoursed openly in the name of Jesus.
28
And he went in and out with them, at
Jerusalem.
29
And he spoke openly in the name of Jesus
and disputed with those Jews who understood
Greek. But they wished to kill him:
30
and when the brethren knew [it], they
conducted him by night to Caesarea, and from
there they sent him to Tarsus.
31
Moreover the church, in all Judaea, and in
Galilee, and in Samaria, had peace and was
edified; and it walked in the fear of God, and
abounded in the consolation of the Holy Spirit.
32
And it occurred, that, as Simon travelled
about the cities, he came down to the saints also
who dwelt in the city of Lydda.
33
And he found a certain man whose name was
Æneas, who had lain on a bed and been
paralytic eight years.
34
And Simon said to him: Æneas, Jesus the
Messiah doth heal thee; arise, and spread thy
bed. And he rose up immediately.
35
And all they that dwelt at Lydda and Saron,
saw him; and they turned to God.
36
And there was in the city of Joppa, a certain
female disciple named Tabitha; [and] she was

rich in good works, and in the alms which she
did.
37
And she fell sick in those days, and died; and
they washed her, and laid her in an upper room.
38
And the disciples heard that Simon was in the
city of Lydda, which is near to Joppa; and they
sent two men to him, to request of him that he
would not delay to come to them.
39
And Simon arose and went with them. And
when he arrived, they conducted him to the
chamber; and there were assembled around her
all the widows, weeping, and showing him the
tunics and the cloaks which Tabitha had given
them when alive.
40
And Simon put all the people out, and fell on
his knees and prayed; and he turned to the
corpse and said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened
her eyes; and when she saw Simon, she sat up.
41
And he reached to her his hand, and raised
her up: and he called the saints and the widows,
and presented her to them alive.
42
And this became known throughout the city;
and many believed on our Lord.
43
And he tarried in Joppa not a few days: and
he lodged in the house of Simon a tanner.
10:1 And there was a certain man in Caesarea,
whose name was Cornelius, a centurion of the
regiment called the Italian.
2 21
And he was righteous, and feared God, he
and all his house; [and] he did much alms
among the people, and prayed to God at all
times.
3
This man distinctly saw, in a vision, about the
ninth hour of the day, an angel of God, who
came in to him and said to him: Cornelius!
4
And he looked upon him, and was afraid; and
he said: What, my Lord? And the angel said to
him: Thy prayers and thy alms have come up in
remembrance before God.
5
And now, send men to the city of Joppa, and
bring Simon who is called Cephas.
6 24
Lo, he lodgeth in the house of Simon the
tanner, which is by the side of the sea.
7
And when the angel that talked with him was
gone, he called two of his household, and a
soldier who feared God and was obedient to
him.
8 26
And he related to them all that he had seen,
and sent them to Joppa.
9 27
And the next day, as they travelled the road
and approached the city, Simon ascended the
roof to pray, at the sixth hour.
10
And he became hungry, and desired to eat.
And while they were providing for him, he fell
into a trance.
11
And he saw the heavens opened, and a
certain vessel fastened at the four corners, and
it was like a great sheet; and it descended from
heaven to the earth.
12
And there were in it all fourfooted animals,
and creeping things of the earth, and fowls of
heaven.
13
And a voice came to him, which said: Simon,
arise, slay and eat.
14
And Simon said: Far be it, my Lord: for never
have I eaten any thing unclean and polluted.
15
And again the second time, there was a voice
to him: What God hath cleansed, make thou not
unclean.
16
And this was done three times; and the
vessel was taken up to heaven.
17
And while Simon was wondering with himself,
what the vision he had seen could denote, the
men who were sent by Cornelius arrived; and
they inquired for the house in which Simon
lodged, and came and stood at the gate of the
court.
18
And there they called out, and asked if Simon
who is called Cephas lodged there?
19
And while Simon was reflecting on the vision,
the Spirit said to him: Lo, three men are inquiring
for thee.
20
Arise, go down, and accompany them; and let
not thy mind hesitate, for I have sent them.
Then Simon went down to the men, and said
to them: I am he for whom ye inquire: what is the
cause for which ye have come?
22
They say to him: A certain man whose name
is Cornelius, a centurion fearing God, and of
whom all the people of the Jews bear good
report, was told in vision, by a holy angel, to
send and bring thee to his house, that he might
hear discourse from thee.
23
And Simon led them in, and entertained them
where he lodged. And the following day, he
arose, departed, and went with them: and some
of the brethren of Joppa also went with them.
And the next day, they entered Caesarea.
And Cornelius was expecting them: and all the
kindred of his family, and also such intimate
friends as he had, were assembled with him.
25
And as Simon came up, Cornelius met him,
and fell down worshipping at his feet.
And Simon raised him up, and said to him:
Arise; I also am a man.
And as he talked with him, he went in, and
found that many had come there.
28
And he said to them: Ye know, that it is not
lawful for a Jewish man, to associate with an
alien who is not of his race: but God hath

showed me, that I should not say of any one,
that he is defiled or unclean.
29
Therefore I came readily, when ye sent for
me. But, I ask you, for what cause did ye send
for me?
30
And Cornelius said to him: It is four days ago,
that, lo, I was fasting; and at the ninth hour,
while I was praying in my house, a certain man
stood before me, clothed in white,
31
and said to me: Cornelius, thy prayer is
heard, and there is remembrance of thy alms
before God.
32
But send to the city of Joppa, and bring
Simon who is called Cephas: lo, he lodgeth in
the house of Simon the tanner, which is by the
side of the sea. And he will come and converse
with thee.
33
And immediately I sent to thee; and thou hast
done well to come: and lo, we are all of us
before thee, and desirous to hear whatever is
commanded thee from God.
34
And Simon opened his mouth, and said: Truly
I discover that God is no respecter of persons.
35
but, among all the nations, he who feareth
him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable
with him.
36
For [this is] the word, which he sent to the
sons of Israel, announcing to them peace and
rest by Jesus Messiah,---He is LORD of all;
37
and ye also know the word, which was in all
Judaea, which commenced from Galilee, after
the baptism that John preached,
38
concerning Jesus, who was of Nazareth,
whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with
power. And he it was, who went about and
healed those that were suffering from evil,
because God was with him.
39
And we [are] his witnesses, as to whatever he
did in all the region of Judaea and in Jerusalem.
This same person the Jews hanged on a tree,
and slew him.
40
And him did God raise up, on the third day;
and caused him to be seen with naked eyes;
41
not indeed by all the people, but by us, who
were chosen of God to be his witnesses, [and]
who ate and drank with him after his resurrection
from the dead.
42
And he commanded us to proclaim and testify
to the people, that he is appointed of God to be
judge of the living and of the dead.
43
And of him all the prophets testify, that
whoever believeth in his name, will receive
remission of sins.
44
And while Simon was uttering these things,
the Holy Spirit overshadowed all them that were
hearing the word.
45
And the circumcised brethren who came with
him, were amazed and astonished, that the gift
of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the
Gentiles also.
46
For they heard them speak with diverse
tongues, and magnify God.
47
And Simon said: Can any one forbid water,
that those should not be baptized, they who
have received, lo, the Holy Spirit, as well as we?
48
Then he commanded them to be baptized in
the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah. And they
requested him to remain with them [some] days.
11:1 And it was reported to the legates and the
brethren in Judaea, that the Gentiles also had
received the word of God.
2
And when Simon went up to Jerusalem, they
who were of the circumcision contended with
him,
3
saying; that he had gone in to be with
uncircumcised persons, and had eaten with
them.
4
And Simon began to address them
methodically:
5
As I was in Joppa, praying, I saw in vision, that
a certain vessel descended, which was like a
sheet, and it was tied at its four corners; and it
descended from heaven and came to me.
6
And I looked upon it, and I saw that in it were
fourfooted animals, and reptiles of the earth, and
fowls of heaven.
7
And I heard a voice, which said to me: Simon,
arise, slay and eat.
8
And I said: Far be it, my Lord. For never hath
any thing polluted or unclean entered my mouth.
9
And again, a voice from heaven said to me:
What God hath cleansed, make thou not
unclean.
10
And this was done three times: and the whole
was taken up to heaven.
11
And at the same instant, three men, who
were sent to me by Cornelius from Caesarea,
came and stood at the gate of the court where I
lodged.
12
And the Spirit said to me: Go with them,
without hesitation. And these six brethren went
also with me, and we entered the man's house.
13
And he related to us, how he had seen an
angel in his house, who stood and said to him:
Send to the city of Joppa, and bring Simon who
is called Cephas;
14
and he will utter to thee discourses, by which
thou wilt live, thou and all thy house.
15
And when I there commenced speaking, the
Holy Spirit overshadowed them, as it did us from
the beginning.
16
And I remembered the word of our Lord,
when he said: John baptized with water, but ye
shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
17
If then God equally gave the gift to the
Gentiles that believed in our Lord Jesus
Messiah, as he did to us: who was I, that I could
forbid God?
18
And when they heard these words, they
desisted; and they glorified God and said: Now
to the Gentiles also doth God give repentance
unto life.
19
And they who were dispersed, by the
oppression which occurred on account of
Stephen, travelled as far as Phenicia, and even
to the country of Cyprus, and to Antioch,
speaking the word to none except to Jews only.
20
And there were some of them from Cyprus
and from Cyrene, who went up to Antioch, and
spoke to the Greeks, and preached concerning
our Lord Jesus.
21
And the hand of the LORD was with them; and
many believed, and turned to the LORD.
22
And this came to the ears of the sons of the
church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas to
Antioch.
23
And when he came there, and saw the grace
of God, he rejoiced: and he entreated them, that
with all their heart, they would adhere to our
Lord.
24
For he was a good man, and was full of the
Holy Spirit, and of faith. And many people were
added to our Lord.
25
And he went away to Tarsus, to seek for
Saul.
26
And when he had found him, he brought him
with him to Antioch. And a whole year they met
together in the church, and instructed many
people.---From that time forth, the disciples were
first called CHRISTIANS, at Antioch.
27
In those days came prophets thither from
Jerusalem.
28
And one of them whose name was Agabus,
stood up and informed them, by the Spirit, that
there would be a great famine in all the country.
And that famine occurred in the days of Claudius
Caesar.
29
And moreover the disciples, each of them
according to his several ability, determined to
send to the relief of the brethren who dwelt in
Judaea.
30
And they sent, by the hand of Barnabas and
Saul, unto the Elders there.
12:1 And at that time Herod the king, who was
surnamed Agrippa, laid hands on some of the
church, to maltreat them.
2
And he killed James the brother of John with
the sword.
3
And when he saw that this pleased the Jews,
he proceeded also to arrest Simon Cephas. And
the days of unleavened bread were then
passing.
4
He seized him and cast him into prison, and
delivered him to sixteen soldiers, who were to
guard him; that he might, after the passover,
deliver him up to the people of the Jews.
5
And while Simon was in custody in the prison,
continual prayer to God in his behalf, was
offered to God by the church.
6
And on the night before the morning in which
he was to be delivered up, while Simon was
sleeping between two soldiers, and was bound
with two chains, and others were guarding the
doors of the prison;
7
an angel of the LORD stood over him, and a
light shone in all the building; and he pricked his
side, and awaked him, and said to him: Arise,
instantly. And the chains fell from his hands.
8
And the angel said to him: Gird thy loins, and
put on thy sandals. And he did so. And again he
said to him: Wrap thyself in thy cloak, and come
after me.
9
And he went out and followed him, not
knowing that what had been done by the angel
was a reality; for he supposed, that he saw a
vision.
10
And when the first ward was passed and the
second, they came to the iron gate, and it
opened to them of its own accord. And when
they had gone out, and had passed one street,
the angel departed from him.
11
Then Simon recognized [where he was]; and
he said: Now I know, in reality, that G OD hath
sent his angel, and delivered me from the hand
of Herod the king, and from what the Jews were
devising against me.
12
And when he had considered, he went to the
house of Mary, the mother of John surnamed
Mark; because many brethren were assembled
there and praying.
13
And he knocked at the gate of the court; and
a maid named Rhoda came to reply to him.
14
And she recognized the voice of Simon: and,
In her joy, she did not open to him the gate, but
ran back, and told them: Lo, Simon is standing
at the gate of the court.
15
They said to her: Thou art delirious. But she
maintained that it was a fact. They said to her:
Perhaps it is his ghost.
16
And Simon was knocking at the gate; and
they went out, saw him, and were astonished.
17
And he beckoned to them with the hand to be
still; and he went in, and related to them how the
LORD had released him from the prison. And he
said to them: Tell these things to James and to
the brethren. And he went out, and departed to
another place.
18
And when it was morning, there was a great
dispute among the soldiers concerning Simon,
what had become of him.
19
And Herod, when he sought him, and could
not find him, arraigned the keepers, and
sentenced them to die. And he went from
Judaea, and resided at Caesarea.
20
And because he was angry against the
Tyrians and Sidonians, they assembled and
came to him in a body; and having persuaded
Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they begged of
him that they might have peace; because the
supplies of their country were derived from the
kingdom of Herod.
21
And on a day appointed, Herod was arrayed
in royal apparel, and sat on a tribunal, and made
a speech to the assembly.
22
And all the people shouted, and said: These
are the utterances of a God, and not of a mortal.
23
And, because he gave not the glory to God,
immediately the angel of GOD smote him; and he
was eaten of worms, and died.
24
And the gospel of God was proclaimed, and
made progress.
25
And Barnabas and Saul, after they had
completed their ministration, returned from
Jerusalem to Antioch. And they took with them
John, who was surnamed Mark.
13:1 Now there were in the church at Antioch,
[several] prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and
Simon called Niger, and Lucius who was from
the city Cyrene, and Menaen, a son of the
guardians of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
2
And while they were fasting and making
supplication to God, the Holy Spirit said to them:
Separate to me Saul and Barnabas, for the work
to which I have called them.
3
And after they had fasted and prayed, they
laid the hand on them, and sent them away.
4
And they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit,
went down to Seleucia, and from there they
went by sea as far as Cyprus.
5
And when they entered the city of Salamis,
they announced the word of our Lord in the
synagogues of the Jews. And John ministered to
them.
6
And when they had travelled over the whole
island as far as the city Paphos, they found a
certain man, a sorcerer, a Jew, who was a false
prophet, and whose name was Bar-Suma.
7
He adhered to a wise man, who was the
proconsul, and was called Sergius Paulus. And
the proconsul sent for Saul and Barnabas, and
requested to hear from them the word of God.
8
And this sorcerer, Bar-Suma, (whose name is
interpreted, Elymas,) withstood them; because
he wished to divert the proconsul from the faith.
9
And Saul who is called Paul, was filled with
the Holy Spirit; and he looked upon him,
10
and said: O thou full of all subtilties, and all
mischiefs, thou child of the calumniator, and
enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease
to pervert the right ways of the LORD?
11
And now, the hand of the LORD is upon thee,
and thou shalt be blind, and shalt not see the
sun for a time. And immediately there fell upon
him a mist and darkness; and he went about,
inquiring who would take him by the hand.
12
And when the proconsul saw what occurred,
he was astonished; and he believed the doctrine
of the LORD.
13
And Paul and Barnabas went by sea, from
the city of Paphos, and came to Perga, a city of
Pamphylia. And John separated from them, and
went away to Jerusalem.
14
And they departed from Perga, and came to
Antioch, a city of Pisidia: and they entered the
synagogue, on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15
And after the law had been read, and the
prophets, the Elders of the synagogue sent to
them, and said: Men, brethren, if ye have a word
of exhortation, address the people.
16
And Paul arose, and waved his hand, and
said: Men, sons of Israel, and ye that fear God,
hear ye.
17
The God of this people chose our fathers,
and raised them up, and multiplied them, when
they resided in the land of Egypt; and, with a
high arm, he brought them out of it.
18
And he fed them in the wilderness forty years.
19
And he extirpated seven nations in the land of
Canaan, and gave them their land for an
inheritance.
20
And for four hundred and fifty years he gave
them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21
And then they asked for themselves a king:
and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man
of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.
22
And he removed him, and raised up to them
David as king: and he testified of him, and said: I
have found David the son of Jesse, a man after
my heart: he will do all my pleasure.
23
From the seed of this man, hath God raised
up to Israel, as he promised, Jesus a deliverer.
24
And, before his advent, he sent John to
proclaim the baptism of repentance to all the
people of Israel.
25
And while John was fulfilling his ministry, he
said: Who, suppose ye, that I am? I am not he.
But lo, he cometh after me; of whom I am not
worthy to untie his shoe-strings.
26
Men, brethren, children of the stock of
Abraham, and all who, with you, fear God, to
you is this word of life sent.
27
For, those inhabitants of Jerusalem and their
chiefs, did not apprehend it; neither [did they
apprehend] also the writings of the prophets,
which are read every sabbath; but they
condemned him, and fulfilled all the things
written.
28
And while they found no ground for [his]
death, they desired of Pilate that they might kill
him.
29
And when they had fulfilled all that was
written concerning him, they took him down from
the cross, and laid him in a sepulchre.
30
But God raised him from the dead.
31
And he was seen many days, by them who
came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem;
and they are now his witnesses to the people.
32
And lo, we also announce to you, that the
promise, which was made to our fathers,
33
lo, God hath fulfilled it to us their children, in
that he raised up Jesus; as it is written in the
second psalm: Thou art my Son; this day have I
begotten thee.
34
And God hath so raised him from the dead,
that he will not return again and see corruption;
as he said: I will give to you the sure grace of
David.
35
And again he said, in another place: Thou
hast not given thy devout one to see corruption.
36
For David, in his generation, served the
pleasure of God, and went to rest, and was
added to his fathers, and saw corruption.
37
But this person, whom God raised up, did not
see corruption.
38
Know therefore, brethren, that through this
man remission of sins is proclaimed to you.
39
And every one that believeth in this man, is
made just from all things, from which ye could
not be made just by the law of Moses.
40
Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you,
which is written in the prophets:
41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and
perish; for I work a work in your days, which ye
will not believe, though a man relate it to you.
42
And when they had gone from them, they
besought them to speak the same things to
them the next sabbath day.
43
And when the synagogue was dismissed,
many Jews went after them, and likewise
proselytes who feared God. And they conversed
with them, and persuaded them to adhere to the
grace of God.
44
And the next sabbath, the whole city
assembled to hear the word of God.
45
And when the Jews saw the great assembly,
they were filled with envy, and set themselves
against the words which Paul spoke, and
blasphemed.
46
And Paul and Barnabas said openly: To you
first, ought the word of God to be spoken; but
because ye repel it from you, and decide,
against yourselves, that ye are not worthy of life
eternal, lo, we turn ourselves to the Gentiles.
47
For so hath our Lord commanded us; as it is
written: I have set thee a light to the Gentiles;
that thou shouldst be for life unto the ends of the
earth.
48
And when the Gentiles heard [this], they
rejoiced and glorified God. And those believed,
who were appointed to life eternal.
49
And the word of the LORD was talked of in all
that region.
50
But the Jews stirred up the chiefs of the city,
and the opulent women who with them feared
God, and set up a persecution against Paul and
against Barnabas, and expelled them from their
borders.
51
And when they went out, they shook off the
dust of their feet against them, and went to the
city of Iconium.
52
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with
the Holy Spirit.
14:1 And they came and entered into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke with them,
that many of the Jews and of the Greeks
believed.
2
But Jews of the class of unbelievers, excited
the Gentiles, to maltreat the brethren.
3
And they continued there a long time, and
spoke openly concerning the Lord; and he gave
testimony to the word of his grace, by the signs
and prodigies which he wrought by their hands.
4
And the whole multitude of the city was
divided; and a part were with the Jews, and a
part adhered to the legates.
5
And an assault was made on them, by the
Gentiles, and by the Jews and their chiefs, to
insult them, and to stone them with stones.
6
And when they knew [it], they departed and
fled to the cities of Lycaonia and Lystra and
Derbe, and to the villages around them;
7
and there they preached.
8 23
And a certain man dwelt in the city Lystra, who
was afflicted in his feet, a cripple from his
mother's womb, who had never walked.
9
He heard Paul speak: and when Paul saw
him, and knew that he had faith to live;
10
he said to him, with a loud voice: In the name
of our Lord Jesus Messiah, I say to thee, Rise
upon thy feet. And he sprang up, stood, and
walked.
11
And the assembly of people, when they saw
what Paul had done, raised their voice, and said,
in the language of the country: The gods have
assumed the likeness of men, and have come
down to us.
12
And they named Barnabas the Lord of the
Gods; and Paul Hermes, because he
commenced the speaking.
13
And the priest of the Lord of the Gods, who
was without the city, brought oxen and garlands
to the gate of the court where they lodged, and
was disposed to offer sacrifices to them.
14
But Barnabas and Paul, when they heard [it],
rent their garments, and sprang and went
among the throng,
15
and called out, and said: Men, what do ye?
We also are frail mortals like yourselves, who
preach to you, that ye should turn from these
useless things, unto the living God, who made
heaven and earth and seas, and whatever is in
them.
16
He, in former ages, left all the nations to go in
their own ways:
17
although he did not leave himself without
testimony, while he did them good from heaven,
and sent down the rain, and made the fruits to
grow in their seasons, and filled their hearts with
food and pleasure.
18
And, by saying these things, they with
difficulty prevented the people from offering
sacrifice to them.
19
But Jews came hither from Iconium and
Antioch, and excited the people against them.
And they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of
the city, supposing that he was dead.
20
And the disciples assembled around him; and
he arose, and went into the city.---And the next
day, he departed from there, with Barnabas; and
they came to the city of Derbe.
21
And while they were preaching to the
inhabitants of that city, they made many
disciples. And turning back, they came to the
city Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch,
22
confirming the souls of the disciples, and
entreating them to persevere in the faith; and
they told them, that it was necessary, through
much affliction, to enter into the kingdom of God.
And they established for them Elders in each
church, while they fasted with them, and prayed,
and commended them to our Lord in whom they
believed.
24
And when they had travelled over the region
of Pisidia they came to Pamphylia.
25
And when they had spoken the word of the
LORD in the city of Perga, they went down to
Attalia.
26
And thence they proceeded by sea, and
came to Antioch; because from there they had
been commended to the grace of the LORD, for
that work which they had accomplished.
27
And when they had collected together the
whole church, they narrated all that God had
wrought with them, and that he had opened a
door of faith to the Gentiles.
28
And they remained there a long time with the
disciples.
15:1 And certain men came down from Judaea,
and taught the brethren, that unless ye be
circumcised, in accordance with the rite of the
law, ye cannot have life.
2
And Paul and Barnabas had much trouble and
disputation with them. And it resulted, that Paul
and Barnabas, and others with them, went up to
the legates and Elders at Jerusalem, because of
this matter.
3
And the church waited on them, and sent them
away; and they travelled through all Phenicia
and the territory of the Samaritans, narrating the
conversion of the Gentiles, and causing great
joy to all the brethren.
4
And when they came to Jerusalem, they were
received by the church, and by the Elders, and
by the legates; and they recounted all that God
had wrought by them.
5
And some who from the sect of the Pharisees
had believed, rose up and said: It is necessary
for you to circumcise them, and to command
them to observe the law of Moses.
6
And the legates and Elders assembled, to look
into this matter.
7
And when there had been much discussion,
Simon arose and said to them: Men, brethren,
ye know that, from the earlier days, God chose
that from my mouth the Gentiles should hear the
word of the gospel, and should believe.
8
And God, who knoweth what is in hearts, bore
testimony concerning them, and gave the Holy
Spirit to them, even as to us.
9
And he made no distinction between them and
us; because he purified their hearts by faith.
10
And now, why tempt ye God, by putting a
yoke on the necks of the disciples, which neither
our fathers nor we could bear?
11
But we believe, that we as well as they, are to
have life by the grace of our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
12
And the whole assembly were silent, and
listened to Paul and Barnabas, who related how
God by their hands had wrought signs and
prodigies among the Gentiles.
13
And after they ceased, James arose and
said: Men, brethren, hearken to me.
14
Simon hath related to you, how God hath
begun to elect a people for his name from
among the Gentiles.
15
And with this the words of the prophets
accord, as it is written:
16
After these things I will return, and will set up
the tabernacle of David that had fallen; and will
build that which was in ruins in it, and will raise it
up:
17
so that the residue of men may seek the
LORD, and all the nations on whom my name is
called; saith the LORD, who doth all these things.
18
Known, from of old, are the works of God.
19
Therefore I say to you, let them not crush
those who from among the Gentiles have turned
unto God.
20
But let word be sent to them, that they keep
aloof from the defilement of a sacrifice [to idols],
and from whoredom, and from what is strangled,
and from blood.
21
For in every city, from former ages, Moses
hath heralds in the synagogues, who read him
every sabbath.
22
Then the legates and Elders, with all the
church, chose men from among themselves,
and sent them to Antioch, with Paul and
Barnabas; [namely], Jude, who was called
Barsabas, and Silas, men who were chiefs
among the brethren.
23
And they wrote a letter by them, thus: The
legates and Elders and brethren, to them that
are in Antioch, and in Syria, and in Cilicia,
brethren who are from the Gentiles, greeting:
24
We have heard, that some have gone from us
and disquieted you, by discourses, and have
subverted your minds, by saying, That ye must
be circumcised and keep the law; things which
we have not commanded them.
25
Therefore we all have thought fit, when
assembled, to choose and send men to you,
with our beloved Paul and Barnabas,
26
men who have given up their lives for the
name of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
27
And we have sent with them Jude and Silas,
that they may tell you the same things orally.
28
For it was pleasing to the Holy Spirit, and to
us, that there should not be laid upon you any
additional burden, besides these necessary
things:
29
that ye keep aloof from a sacrifice [to idols],
and from blood, and from what is strangled, and
from whoredom. And if ye keep yourselves from
these, ye will do well. Be ye steadfast in the
Lord.
30
And they who were sent, came to Antioch,
and assembled all the people, and delivered the
letter.
31
And when they had read [it], they rejoiced
and were comforted.
32
And with abundant discourse they
strengthened the brethren; and the associates of
Jude and Silas established them, because they
also were prophets.
33
And when, they had been there some time,
the brethren dismissed them in peace to the
legates.
34
[But it was the pleasure of Silas to remain
13
there.]
35
Paul also and Barnabas remained at Antioch;
and they taught and proclaimed, with many
others, the word of God.
36
And after [some] days, Paul said to
Barnabas: Let us return, and visit the brethren in
every city, in which we have preached the word
of God; and let us see what they are doing.
37
And Barnabas was disposed to take John,
who was surnamed Mark.
38
But Paul was not willing to take him with
them; because he left them when they were in
Pamphylia, and went not with them.
39
In, consequence of this strife, they separated
from each other: and Barnabas took Mark, and
they travelled by sea and went to Cyprus.
40
But Paul chose Silas for his companion, and
departed, being commended by the brethren to
the grace of God.
41
And he travelled through Syria, and through
Cilicia, and strengthened the churches.
16:1 And he came to the city Derbe, and to
Lystra. And there was a certain disciple there,
whose name was Timothy, the son of a believing
Jewess, but his father was a Gentile.
2
And all the disciples of Lystra and Iconium
gave good testimony of him.
13
Acts 15:34 - This verse is removed to the margin in
the editions of the British and Foreign Bible Society
and is non-existant in all Peshitto MSS.
3
Him Paul was disposed to take with him: and
he took him, and circumcised him, because of
the Jews that were in that region; for they all
knew that his father was a Gentile.
4
And as they went among the cities, they
preached and taught them, that they should
observe those injunctions which the legates and
Elders at Jerusalem had written.
5
And so were the churches established in the
faith, and were increased in number daily.
6 20
And they travelled through the regions of
Phrygia and Galatia; and the Holy Spirit forbid
them to speak the word of God in Asia.
7 21
And when they came into the region of Mysia,
they were disposed to go from there into
Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus permitted them
not.
8
And when they departed from Mysia, they
came down to the region of Troas.
9 23
And in a vision of the night, there appeared
unto Paul, a man of Macedonia, who stood and
besought him, saying: Come to Macedonia and
help us.
10
And when Paul had seen this vision,
immediately we were desirous to depart for
Macedonia; because we inferred, that our Lord
called us to preach to them.
11
And we sailed from Troas, and came direct to
Samothrace; and from there, on the following
day, we came to the city Neapolis.
12
And from there to Philippi, which is the chief
[city] of Macedonia, and is a colony. And we
remained in that city certain days.
13
And on the sabbath day, we went without the
gate of the city to the side of a river, because a
house of prayer was seen there. And when we
were seated, we conversed with the women who
there assembled.
14
And a certain woman who feared God, a
seller of purple, whose name was Lydia, from
the city of Thyatira, [was there]. Her heart our
Lord opened, and she hearkened to what Paul
spake.
15
And she was baptized, and her household.
And she entreated us, saying: If ye are really
persuaded that I have believed in our Lord,
come and take lodging in my house. And she
urged us much.
16
And it occurred that, as we were going to the
house of prayer, a certain maid met us, who had
a spirit of divination, and who procured for her
lords great gain by the divination which she
performed.
17
And she followed after Paul and us, and
cried, saying: These men are the servants of the
Most High God, and they announce to you the
way of life.
18
And this she did many days. And Paul was
indignant; and he said to that spirit, I command
thee, in the name of Jesus Messiah, that thou
come out of her. And it came out the same hour.
19
And when her lords saw that the prospect of
their gain from her was gone, they seized Paul
and Silas, and dragging them along brought
them to the market-place,
and set them before the prefects and chiefs
of the city, and said: These men disturb our city;
for they are Jews,
and they preach to us customs, which it is not
lawful for us to receive and to practise, because
we are Romans.
22
And a great company was collected against
them. Then the prefects rent their garments, and
commanded to scourge them.
And when they had scourged them much,
they cast them into the prison, and commanded
the keeper of the prison to keep them with care.
24
And he, having received this command,
carried and immured them in the inner part of
the prison, and confined their feet in the stocks.
25
And at midnight Paul and Silas were praying
and glorifying God: and the prisoners heard
them.
26
And suddenly there was a great shaking, and
the foundations of the prison were moved; and
at once all the doors opened, and the bands of
all were loosed.
27
And when the keeper of the prison awoke,
and saw that the doors of the prison were open,
he took a sword and sought to kill himself;
because he supposed the prisoners had
escaped.
28
But Paul called to him, in a loud voice, and
said: Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.
29
And he lighted for himself a lamp, and sprang
and came in, trembling, and fell at the feet of
Paul and Silas.
30
And he brought them out, and said to them:
My lords, what must I do, that I may have life?
31
And they said to him: Believe on the name of
our Lord Jesus Messiah, and thou wilt have life,
thou and thy house.
32
And they spoke the word of the LORD to him,
and to all the members of his house.
33
And the same hour of the night, he took and
washed them from their stripes; and he was
baptized immediately, he and all the members of
his house.
34
And he took them and brought them into his
house, and set a table for them; and he rejoiced

in the faith of God, he and all the members of his
house.
35
And when it was morning, the prefects sent
rod-bearers to say to the superior of the prison:
Let those men loose.
36
And when the superior of the prison heard [it],
he went in, and said the same thing to Paul;
[namely], that the prefects have sent [word] that
ye be set free. And now, [said he,] Go ye out,
and depart in peace.
37
But Paul said to him: They have scourged us,
unoffending men, and Romans, before all the
world, and have cast us into prison; and now, do
they secretly let us out? No, surely: but let them
come themselves and bring us out.
38
And the rod-bearers went and told to the
prefects the words which were told to them: and
when they heard that they were Romans, they
were afraid,
39
and came to them, and entreated of them that
they would come out, and that they would leave
the city.
40
And when they came out from the prison,
they entered the house of Lydia; and there they
saw the brethren, and comforted them, and
departed.
17:1 And they passed through the cities of
Amphipolis and Apollonia, and came to
Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the
Jews.
2
And Paul, as was his custom, went in to them;
and during three sabbaths he discoursed with
them from the scriptures;
3 18
expounding and showing, that the Messiah
was to suffer, and to arise from the dead, and
that this Jesus whom I announce to you is the
Messiah.
4
And some of them believed, and adhered to
Paul and Silas; and of those Greeks who feared
God, a great many; and also of noted women,
not a few.
5
But the Jews were indignant, and gathered to
themselves evil men from the market­place of
the city, and formed a great mob; and they
alarmed the city, and came and assaulted the
house of Jason, and sought to draw them from
it, and to deliver them up to the mob.
6
And when they found them not there, they
drew Jason and the brethren who were there,
and brought them before the chiefs of the city,
crying out: These are they who have terrified all
the country; and lo, they have come hither also:
7
and this Jason is their entertainer: and they all
resist the commands of Caesar, saying that
there is another king, one Jesus.
8
And the chiefs of the city and all the people,
were alarmed when they heard these things.
9
And they took sureties from Jason, and also
from the brethren, and then released them.
10
And the brethren immediately, on the same
night, sent away Paul and Silas to the city of
Berea. And when they came there, they entered
into the synagogue of the Jews.
11
For the Jews there were more liberal than the
Jews of Thessalonica; and they gladly heard the
word from them daily, and searched from the
scriptures whether these things were so.
12
And many of them believed; and so likewise
of the Greeks, many men, and women of note.
13
And when the Jews of Thessalonica had
knowledge that the word of God was preached
by Paul in the city of Berea, they came thither
also, and they ceased not to excite and alarm
the people.
14
And the brethren sent away Paul, that he
might go down to the sea. But Silas and Timothy
abode in that city.
15
And they who conducted Paul, went with him
to the city of Athens. And when they departed
from him, they received an epistle from him to
Silas and Timothy, that they should come to him
speedily.
16
And while Paul was waiting [for them] at
Athens, he was pained in his spirit; because he
saw that the whole city was full of idols.
17
And in the synagogue he spoke with the
Jews, and with those that feared God, and in the
market-place with them who daily assembled
there.
And also philosophers of the sect of
Epicureans, and others who were called Stoics,
disputed with him. And one and another of them
said: What doth this word-monger mean? Others
said: He announceth foreign deities; because he
preached to them Jesus and his resurrection.
19
And they took him and brought him to the
place of judgments called Areopagus, and said
to him: May we know what this new doctrine
which thou preachest is?
20
For thou scatterest in our ears strange words;
and we wish to know what they are.
21
For all the Athenians and the foreigners
residing there, cared for nothing else but to tell
or to hear something new.
22
And as Paul stood in the Areopagus, he said:
Men, Athenians, I perceive that in all things ye
are excessive in the worship of demons.
23
For, as I was rambling about, and viewing the
temples of your worship, I met with an altar, on
which was inscribed, TO THE HIDDEN GOD.

Him, therefore, whom ye worship while ye know
him not, the very same I announce to you.
24
For the God who made the world and all that
is in it, and who is Lord of heaven and of earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
25
Nor is he ministered to by human hands,
neither hath he any wants; for he it is giveth life
and breath to every man.
26
And of one blood hath he made the whole
world of men, that they might dwell on the face
of all the earth: and he hath separated the
seasons by his ordinance; and hath set bounds
to the residence of men:
27
that they might inquire and search after God,
and, by means of his creations, might find him;
because he is not afar off from each one of us:
28
for in him it is we live, and move, and exist:
as one of your own wise men hath said: From
him is our descent.
29
Therefore we, whose descent is from God,
ought not to suppose that the Deity hath the
likeness of gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured
by the art and skill of men.
30
And the times of this error God hath made to
pass away; and at the present time, he
commandeth all men, that each individual, in
every place, should repent.
31
Because he hath appointed a day, in which
he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by
the man whom he hath designated: and he
turneth every man to faith in him, in that he
raised him from the dead.
32
And when they heard of the resurrection from
the dead, some of them ridiculed, and others of
them said: At another time, we will hear thee on
this matter.
33
And so Paul departed from among them.
34
And some of them adhered to him, and
believed; one of these was Dionysius from
among the judges of Areopagus, and a woman
named Damaris, and others with them.
18:1 And when Paul departed from Athens, he
went to Corinth.
2
And he found there a man, a Jew, whose
name was Aquila, who was from the region of
Pontus, and had just then arrived from the
country of Italy, he and Priscilla his wife,
because Claudius Caesar had commanded that
all Jews should depart from Rome. And he went
to them;
3
and, because he was of a their trade, he took
lodgings with them, and worked with them; for
by their trade they were tent-makers.
4
And he spoke in the synagogue every
sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and Gentiles.
5
And when Silas and Timothy had come from
Macedonia, Paul was impeded in discourse,
because the Jews stood up against him, and
reviled, as he testified to them that Jesus is the
Messiah.
6
And he shook his garments, and said to them:
Henceforth I am clean; I betake myself to the
Gentiles.
7
And he went away, and entered into the house
of a certain man named Titus, one who feared
God, and whose house adjoined the synagogue.
8
And Crispus, the president of the synagogue,
believed on our Lord, he and all the members of
his house. And many Corinthians gave ear, and
believed in God and were baptized.
9
And the LORD said to Paul in a vision: Fear
not, but speak and be not silent:
10
for I am with thee, and no one is able to harm
thee; and I have much people in this city.
11
And he resided in Corinth a year and six
months, and taught them the word of God.
12
And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,
the Jews assembled together against Paul; and
they brought him before the judgment-seat,
13
saying: This man persuadeth the people to
worship God contrary to the law.
14
And when Paul requested that he might open
his mouth and speak, Gallio said to the Jews: If
your accusation, O Jews, related to any wrong
done, or any fraud, or base act, I would listen to
you suitably.
15
But if the contests are about words, and
about names, and concerning your law, ye must
see to it among yourselves, for I am not
disposed to be a judge of such matters.
16
And he repelled them from his judgment-seat.
17
And all the Gentiles laid hold of Sosthenes an
Elder of the synagogue, and smote him before
the judgment-seat. And Gallio disregarded these
things.
18
And when Paul had been there many days,
he bid adieu to the brethren, and departed by
sea to go to Syria. And with him went Priscilla
and Aquila, when he had shaved his head at
Cenchrea, because he had vowed a vow.
19
And they came to Ephesus; and Paul entered
the synagogue, and discoursed with the Jews.
20
And they requested him to tarry with them:
but he could not be persuaded.
21
For he said: I must certainly keep the
approaching feast at Jerusalem. But, if it please
God, I will come again to you.
22
And Aquila and Priscilla he left at Ephesus,
and he himself proceeded by sea and came to
Caesarea. And he went up and saluted the
members of the church, and went on to Antioch.
23
And when he had been there some days, he
departed, and travelled from place to place in
the regions of Phrygia and Galatia, establishing
all the disciples.
24
And a certain man named Apollos, a Jew, a
native of Alexandria, who was trained to
eloquence, and well taught in the scriptures,
came to Ephesus.
25
He had been instructed in the ways of the
LORD, and was fervent in spirit; and he
discoursed and taught fully respecting Jesus,
while yet he knew nothing except the baptism of
John.
26
And he began to speak boldly in the
synagogue. And when Aquila and Priscilla heard
him, they took him to their house, and fully
showed him the way of the LORD.
27
And when he was disposed to go to Achaia,
the brethren anticipated him, and wrote to the
disciples to receive him. And, by going, through
grace, he greatly assisted all them that believed.
28
For he reasoned powerfully against the Jews,
before the congregation; and showed from the
scriptures, respecting Jesus, that he is the
Messiah.
19:1 And while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul
travelled over the upper countries to Ephesus.
And he inquired of the disciples whom he found
there,
2 19
Have ye received the Holy Spirit, since ye
believed? They answered and said to him: If
there be a Holy Spirit, it hath not come to our
hearing.
3
He said to them: Into what then were ye
baptized? They say: Into the baptism of John.
4
Paul said to them: John baptized the people
with the baptism of repentance, while he told
them to believe in him who was to come after
him, that is, in Jesus the Messiah.
5
And when they heard these things, they were
baptized in the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
6 22
And Paul laid [his] hand on them; and the Holy
Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in
various tongues, and prophesied.
7
And all the persons were twelve.
8 23
And Paul entered into the synagogue, and
spoke boldly three months, persuading in regard
to the kingdom of God.
9
And some of them were hardened, and
disputatious, and reviled the way of God before
the assembly of the people. Then Paul withdrew
himself, and separated the disciples from them.
And he discoursed with them daily in the school
of a man named Tyrannus.
10
And this continued for two years, until all who
resided in [Proconsular] Asia, both Jews and
Gentiles, heard the word of the LORD.
11
And God wrought very great miracles by the
hand of Paul:
12
so that, from the clothes on his body, napkins
and rags were carried and laid upon the sick,
and the diseases left them, and demons also
went out.
13
And moreover certain Jews, who went about
exorcising demons, were disposed to exorcise in
the name of our Lord Jesus over those who had
unclean spirits, by saying: We adjure you, in the
name of that Jesus whom Paul announceth.
14
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a
Jew, and chief of the priests, who did this.
15
And the evil demon answered and said to
them: Jesus I well know, and Paul I know, but as
for you, who are ye?
16
And the man in whom was the evil demon
leaped upon them, and overpowered them, and
threw them down: and they fled out of the house
denuded and bruised.
17
And this became known to all the Jews and
Gentiles, who resided at Ephesus. And fear fell
on them all, and the name of our Lord Jesus
Messiah was exalted.
18
And many of them that believed, came and
narrated their faults, and confessed what they
had done.
And also many magicians collected their
books, and brought and burned them before
every body: and they computed the cost of
them, and it amounted to fifty thousand [pieces]
of silver.
20
And thus with great power was the faith of
God strengthened and increased.
21
And when these things had been
accomplished, Paul purposed in his mind, to
make the circuit of all Macedonia and Achaia,
and [then] go to Jerusalem. And he said: After I
have gone thither, I must also see Rome.
And he sent two persons, of those that
ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, into
Macedonia; but he himself remained for a time
in Asia.
And at that time there was great commotion
respecting the way of God.
24
For a certain silversmith was there, named
Demetrius, who made silver shrines for Diana,
and afforded great profits to the artisans of his
trade.
25
He assembled all the artisans of his trade,
and those who labored with them, and said to
them: Gentlemen, ye know that our gains are all
from this manufacture.
26
And ye also know and see, that not only the
citizens of Ephesus, but also the mass of all
Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and enticed
away, by saying, that those are not gods, which
are made by the hands of men.
27
And not only is this occupation slandered and
impeded, but also the temple of the great
goddess Diana is accounted as nothing; and
likewise the goddess herself of all Asia, and
whom all nations worship, is contemned.
28
And when they heard these things they were
filled with wrath; and they cried out, and said:
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
29
And the whole city was in commotion; and
they ran together, and entered the theatre. And
they caught, and bore along with them, Gaius
and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and
associates of Paul.
30
And Paul was disposed to go into the theatre:
but the disciples restrained him.
31
And likewise the chiefs of Asia, because they
were his friends, sent and requested of him, that
he would not expose himself by going into the
theatre.
32
And the multitudes that were in the theatre
were in great confusion, and cried, some one
thing, and some another: and many of them
knew not for what cause they had come
together.
33
And the Jewish people who were there,
brought forward one of their men, a Jew, named
Alexander. And he, rising up, waved his hand,
and wished to make a defence before the
people.
34
But they knowing him to be a Jew, all cried
out with one voice, about two hours: Great is
Diana of the Ephesians.
35
But the chief of the city tranquillized them, by
saying: Men of Ephesus, What person is there,
among men, who doth not know the city of the
Ephesians to be devoted to the worship of the
great Diana, and of her image that descended
from heaven?
36
Since therefore no one can gainsay this, ye
ought to be tranquil, and to do nothing with
precipitancy.
37
For ye have brought forward these men,
when they have robbed no temples, and have
not reviled our goddess.
38
But if Demetrius and the men of his trade
have a controversy with any one, lo, there is a
proconsul in the city, they are men of dexterity,
let them approach and litigate with one another.
39
Or if you desire any other thing, it may be
determined in the place assigned by law for an
assembly.
40
Because too we are now in danger of being
accused as seditious, since we cannot give a
reason for the meeting of this day, because we
have assembled needlessly, and been
tumultuous without a cause.
41
And having said these things, he dismissed
the assembly.
20:1 And after the tumult had subsided, Paul
called the disciples to him, and comforted them,
and kissed them, and departed, and went into
Macedonia.
2
And when he had travelled over those regions,
and had comforted them with many discourses,
he proceeded to the country of Greece.
3
And he was there three months. And the Jews
formed a plot against him, when he was about to
go to Syria: and he contemplated returning to
Macedonia.
4
And there departed with him, as far as Asia,
Sopater of the city Berea, and Aristarchus and
Secundus who were of Thessalonica, and Gaius
who was of the city of Derbe, and Timothy of
Lystra, and of Asia Tychicus and Trophimus.
5
These proceeded on before us, and waited for
us at Troas.
6
And we departed from Philippi, a city of the
Macedonians, after the days of unleavened
bread; and proceeded by water and arrived at
Troas in five days, and remained there seven
days.
7
And on the first day of the week, when we
assembled to break the eucharist, Paul
discoursed with them, because he was to depart
the next day; and he continued his discourse till
midnight.
8
And there were many lamps burning in the
chamber where we were assembled.
9
And a young man named Eutychus was sitting
in a window and listening. And while Paul
prolonged his discourse, he sunk into a deep
sleep; and, in his sleep, he fell from the third loft,
and was taken up as dead.
10
And Paul went down, and bent over him and
embraced him, and said: Be not agitated, for his
soul is in him.
11
And when he had gone up, he broke the
bread and tasted [it], and discoursed until the
morning dawned. And then he departed to go by
land.
12
And they brought the young man alive, and
rejoiced over him greatly.
13
And we went on board the ship, and sailed to
the port of Thesos; because, there we were to
take in Paul: for so had he bidden us, when he
proceeded on by land.
14
And when we had received him at Thesos,
we took him on board ship and proceeded to
Mitylene.
15
And from there, the next day, we sailed over
against the island Chios; and again, the next day
we arrived at Samos, and stopped at Trogyllium;
and on the following day we arrived at Miletus.
16
For Paul had determined with himself to pass
by Ephesus, lest he should be delayed there;
because he hasted on, if possible, to keep the
day of pentecost in Jerusalem.
17
And from Miletus, he sent and called the
Elders of the church at Ephesus.
18
And when they had come to him, he said to
them: Ye yourselves know, how, at all times,
since the first day that I entered Asia, I have
been with you;
19
laboring for God, in great humility, and with
tears, amid the trials which beset me from the
plottings of Jews:
20
and I shunned not that which was
advantageous to your souls, that I might preach
to you, and teach in the streets and in houses,
21
while I testified to Jews and to Gentiles, as to
repentance towards God and faith in our Lord
Jesus Messiah.
22
And now I am bound in spirit, and I go to
Jerusalem; and I know not what will befall me
there;
23
except that the Holy Spirit in every city,
testifieth to me and saith: Bonds and afflictions
await thee.
24
But my life is accounted by me as nothing, so
that I may but finish my course, and the
ministration which I have received from our Lord
Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the
grace of God.
25
And now, I know that ye will see my face no
more, all of you among whom I have travelled
and preached the kingdom of God.
26
I therefore protest to you, this day, that I am
pure from the blood of you all.
27
For I have not shunned to acquaint you with
all the will of God.
28
Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all
the flock over which the Holy Spirit hath
14
established you bishops ; that ye feed the
15
church of God , which he hath acquired by his
blood.
14
Acts 20:28a - This is the only place in this version
of the New Testament in which the word Bishop
occurs.
15
Acts 20:28b – This represents the Western
reading, the Eastern Peshitta has “of the Messiah.”
29
For I know, that after I am gone, fierce wolves
will come in among you, and will have no mercy
on the flock.
30
And also, from among yourselves, there will
rise up men speaking perverse things, that they
may turn away the disciples to go after them.
31
Therefore be ye vigilant; and remember, that
for three years I ceased not to admonish each
one of you, by day and by night, with tears.
32
And now I commend you to God, and to the
word of his grace, which is able to build you up,
and to give you an inheritance among all the
saints.
33
Silver, or gold, or garments, I have not
coveted.
34
And ye yourselves, know, that these hands
ministered to my wants, and to them that were
with me.
35
And I have showed you all things; that thus it
is a duty to labor, and to care for the infirm, and
to remember the words of our Lord Jesus; for he
hath said, That he is more blessed who giveth,
than he who receiveth.
36
And when he had said these things, he fell on
his knees and prayed, and all the people with
him.
37
And there was great weeping among them
all. And they embraced him, and kissed him.
38
And they had the most anguish, because of
the word he uttered, that they would see his face
no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.
21:1 And we separated from them, and
proceeded in a straight course to the island of
Coos: and the next day, we reached Rhodes,
and from there Patara.
2
And we found there a ship going to Phenicia;
and we entered it, and proceeded on.
3
And we came up with the island of Cyprus,
and leaving it on the left we came to Syria; and
from there we went to Tyre, for there the ship
was to discharge her cargo.
4
And, as we found disciples there, we tarried
with them seven days: and they, by the Spirit,
told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.
5
And after those days, we departed and went
on [our] way; and they all clung to us, they and
their wives and their children, until [we were]
without the city; and they fell on their knees by
the seaside, and prayed.
6
And we kissed one another: and we embarked
in the ship, and they returned to their homes.
7
And we sailed from Tyre, and arrived at the
city Acco; and we saluted the brethren there,
and stopped with them one day.
8
And the next day, we departed and came to
Cesarea; and we went in and put up in the
house of Philip the Evangelist, who was one of
the seven.
9
He had four virgin daughters, who were
prophetesses.
10
And as we were there many days, a certain
prophet came down from Judaea, whose name
was Agabus.
11
And he came in to us, and took the girdle of
Paul's loins, and bound his own feet and hands,
and said: Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So will the
Jews in Jerusalem bind the man, who owns this
girdle; and they will deliver him into the hands of
the Gentiles.
12
And when we heard these words, we and the
residents of the place begged of him, that he
would not go to Jerusalem.
13
Then Paul answered and said: What do ye,
weeping and crushing my heart? For I am
prepared, not only to be bound, but also to die at
Jerusalem, for the name of our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
14
And as he was not to be persuaded by us, we
desisted; and we said: Let the pleasure of our
Lord take place.
15
And after those days, we prepared ourselves
and went up to Jerusalem.
16
And some disciples of Caesarea went along
with us, taking with them a brother from among
the earlier disciples, whose name was Mnason,
and who was from Cyprus; that he might
entertain us at his house.
17
And when we arrived at Jerusalem, the
brethren received us joyfully.
18
And the next day, with Paul, we went unto
James, when all the Elders were with him.
19
And we gave them salutation: and Paul
narrated to them, with particularity what God had
wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
20
And when they heard [it] they glorified God.
And they said to him: Our brother, Thou seest
how many myriads there are in Judaea who
have believed: and these are all zealous for the
law.
21
And it hath been told them, of thee, that thou
teachest all the Jews that are among the
Gentiles to depart from Moses, by telling them
not to circumcise their children, and not to
observe the rites of the law.
22
Now, because they have heard that thou hast
arrived here,
23
do thou what we tell thee. We have four men,
who have vowed to purify themselves.
24
Take them, and go and purify thyself with
them, and pay the expenses along with them, as
they shall shave their heads; that every one may
know, that what is said against thee is false, and
that thou fulfillest and observest the law.
25
As to those of the Gentiles who have
believed, we have written, that they should keep
themselves from [an idol's] sacrifice, and from
whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from
blood.
26
Then Paul took those men, on the following
day, and was purified with them; and he entered
and went into the temple, manifesting to them
the completion of the days of the purification, up
to the presentation of the offering by each of
them.
27
And when the seventh day arrived, the Jews
from Asia saw him in the temple: and they
excited all the people against him, and laid
hands on him,
28
crying out and saying: Men, sons of Israel;
help. This is the man, who teacheth in every
place, against our people, and against the law,
and against this place; and he hath also brought
Gentiles into the temple, and hath polluted this
holy place.
29
For they had previously seen with him in the
city Trophimus the Ephesian; and they
supposed, that he had entered the temple with
Paul.
30
And the whole city was in commotion; and all
the people assembled together, and laid hold of
Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and
instantly the gates were closed.
31
And while the multitude were seeking to kill
him, it was reported to the Chiliarch of the
cohort, that the whole city was in uproar.
32
And immediately he took a centurion and
many soldiers, and they ran upon them. And
when they saw the Chiliarch and the soldiers,
they desisted from beating Paul.
33
And the Chiliarch came up to him, and seized
him, and ordered him to be bound with two
chains: and he inquired respecting him, who he
was, and what he had done.
34
And persons from the throng vociferated
against him this thing and that. And, because he
could not, on account of their clamor, learn what
the truth was, he commanded to conduct him to
the castle.
35
And when Paul came to the stairs, the
soldiers bore him along, because of the violence
of the people.
36
For a great many people followed after him,
and cried out, saying: Away with him.
37
And when he came near to entering the
castle, Paul said to the Chiliarch: Wilt thou

permit me to speak with thee? And he said to
him: Dost thou know Greek?
38
Art not thou that Egyptian who, before these
days, madest insurrection, and leadest out into
the desert four thousand men, doers of evil?
39
Paul said to him: I am a Jew, a man of
Tarsus, a noted city in Cilicia, in which I was
born: I pray thee, suffer me to speak to the
people.
40
And when he permitted him, Paul stood upon
the stairs, and waved to them his hand; and
when they were quiet, he addressed them in
Hebrew, and said to them:
22:1 Brethren, and fathers, hearken to my
defence before you.
2 19
And when they perceived that he addressed
them in Hebrew, they were the more quiet: and
he said to them:
3 20
I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in
Tarsus of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city,
at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly
in the law of our fathers; and I was zealous for
God, as ye also all are.
4
And I persecuted this way, even to death; for I
bound, and delivered up to prison, [both] men
and women.
5
As the high priest is my witness, and likewise
all the Elders; from whom I received letters, that
I might go to the brethren in Damascus, and
bring those who were there prisoners to
Jerusalem, to receive capital punishment.
6
And as I travelled and began to approach
Damascus, at noonday, from amidst tranquillity,
a great light from heaven burst upon me.
7 25
And I fell to the earth: and I heard a voice,
which said to me: Saul, Saul! why persecutest
thou me?
8
And I answered and said: Who art thou, my
Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus the
Nazarean, whom thou persecutest.
9
And the men who were with me, saw the light,
but heard not the voice that talked with me.
10
And I said: My Lord, what must I do? And our
Lord said to me: Arise, go to Damascus; and
there will be told thee, all that it is commanded
thee to do.
11
And as I could see nothing, because of the
glory of that light, those with me took me by the
hand, and I entered Damascus.
12
And a certain man, Ananias, who was upright
according to the law, as all the Jews there
testified concerning him, came to me.
13
And he said to me: My brother Saul! open
thine eyes. And instantly my eyes were opened;
and I looked upon him.
14
And he said to me: The God of our fathers
hath ordained thee to know his will, and to
behold the Just One, and to hear the voice of his
mouth.
15
And thou shalt be a witness for him before all
men, concerning all that thou hast seen and
heard.
16
And now, why delayest thou? Arise, be
baptized, and be cleansed from thy sins, while
thou invokest his name.
17
And I returned and came hither to Jerusalem.
And I prayed in the temple.
18
And I saw him in a vision, when he said to
me: Make haste, and get thee out of Jerusalem;
for they will not receive thy testimony concerning
me.
And I said: My Lord, they well know that I
have delivered up to prison, and have scourged
in all synagogues, those who believed in thee.
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen
was shed, I also was standing with them, and
performed the pleasure of his slayers, and took
charge of the garments of those that stoned him.
21
But he said to me: Depart; for I send thee
afar, to preach to the Gentiles.
22
And when they had heard Paul as far as this
sentence, they raised their voice, and cried out:
Away with such a man from the earth! for he
ought not to live!
23
And as they vociferated, and cast off their
garments, and threw dust into the air,
24
the Chiliarch gave orders, to carry him into
the castle: and he commanded, that he should
be examined with stripes; that he might know,
for what cause they cried out against him.
And as they were stretching him with ropes,
Paul said to the centurion who stood over him: Is
it lawful for you to scourge a man, who is a
Roman, and not yet found guilty?
26
And when the centurion heard [it], he went to
the Chiliarch, and said to him: What doest thou?
For this man is a Roman.
27
And the Chiliarch came to him, and said to
him: Tell me; Art thou a Roman? And he said to
him: Yes.
28
The Chiliarch replied and said to him: With
much money I acquired Roman citizenship. Paul
said to him: And I was born in it.
29
And immediately they who were intending to
scourge him, fled from him: and the Chiliarch
was afraid, when he learned that he was a
Roman, because he had stretched him [for
scourging].
30
And the next day, he wished to know truly
what the accusation was, which the Jews
brought against him: and he unbound him, and
commanded the chief priests, and the whole
company of their head-men, to assemble; and
he took Paul, and brought him down, and placed
him among them.
23:1 And when Paul had looked on the
assembly of them, he said: Men, my brethren; I
have lived in all good conscience before God up
to this day.
2 17
And Ananias, the priest, commanded those
who stood by his side, to smite Paul on the
mouth.
3
And Paul said to him: God is hereafter to smite
thee, [thou] Whited Wall! For, sittest thou judging
me agreeably to law, while thou transgressest
the law, and commandest to smite me?
4
And those standing by, said to him: Dost thou
reproach the priest of God!
5 19
Paul said to them: I was not aware, my
brethren, that he was the priest: for it is written,
Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people.
6 20
And, as Paul knew that a part of the people
were of the Sadducees, and a part of the
Pharisees, he cried out, in the assembly: Men,
my brethren; I am a Pharisee, the son of a
Pharisee; and for the hope of the resurrection of
the dead, I am judged.
7
And when he had said this, the Pharisees and
Sadducees fell upon one another, and the
people were divided.
8
For the Sadducees say that there is no
resurrection, nor angels, nor a spirit: but the
Pharisees confess all these.
9
And there was great vociferation. And some
Scribes of the party of the Pharisees rose up,
and contended with them, and said. We have
found nothing evil in this man: for if a spirit or an
angel hath conversed with him, what is there in
that?
10
And, as there was great commotion among
them, the Chiliarch was afraid lest they should
tear Paul in pieces. And he sent Romans, to go
and pluck him from their midst, and bring him
into the castle.
11
And when night came, our Lord appeared to
Paul, and said to him: Be strong; for as thou
hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so also art
thou to testify at Rome.
12
And when it was morning, several of the Jews
assembled together, and bound themselves by
imprecations that they would neither eat nor
drink until they had slain Paul.
13
And they who had established this compact
by oath, were more than forty persons.
14
And they went to the priests and Elders, and
said: We have bound ourselves by imprecations,
that we will taste of nothing, until we shall have
slain Paul.
15
And now, do ye and the chiefs of the
congregation request of the Chiliarch, that he
would bring him unto you, as if ye were desirous
to investigate truly his conduct: and we are
prepared to slay him, ere he shall come to you.
16
And the son of Paul's sister, heard of this plot:
and he went into the castle, and informed Paul.
And Paul sent and called one of the
centurions, and said to him: Conduct this youth
to the Chiliarch; for he hath something to tell
him.
18
And the centurion took the young man, and
introduced him to the Chiliarch, and said: Paul
the prisoner called me, and requested me to
bring this youth to thee, for he hath something to
tell thee.
And the Chiliarch took the young man by his
hand, and led him one side, and asked him:
What hast thou to tell me?
And the young man said to him: The Jews
have projected to ask thee to bring down Paul
to-morrow to their assembly, as if wishing to
learn something more from him.
21
But be not thou persuaded by them: for, lo,
more than forty persons of them watch for him in
ambush, and have bound themselves by
imprecations, that they will neither eat nor drink
until they shall have slain him: and lo, they are
prepared, and are waiting for thy promise.
22
And the Chiliarch dismissed the young man,
after charging him: Let no man know, that thou
hast showed me these things.
23
And he called two centurions, and said to
them: Go and prepare two hundred Romans to
go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and
shooters with the right hand two hundred; and
let them set out at the third hour of the night.
24
And provide also a saddle beast, that they
may set Paul on it, and carry him safely to Felix
the governor.
25
And he wrote a letter and gave them, in which
was, thus:
26
Claudius Lysias to the excellent governor
Felix; greeting.
27
The Jews seized this man, in order to kill him;
but I came with Romans, and rescued him,
when I learned that he was a Roman.
28
And as I wished to know the offence, for
which they criminated him, I brought him to their
assembly.
29
And I found, that it was about questions of
their law they accused him, and that an offence
worthy of bonds or of death, was not upon him.
30
And when the wiles of a plot formed by the
Jews against him came to my knowledge, I
forthwith sent him to thee. And I have directed
his accusers, to go and contend with him, before
thee. Farewell.
31
Then the Romans, as they had been
commanded, took Paul by night, and brought
him to the city of Antipatris.
32
And the next day, the horsemen dismissed
the footmen their associates, that they might
return to the castle.
33
And they brought him to Caesarea: and they
delivered the letter to the governor, and set Paul
before him.
34
And when he had read the letter, he asked
him of what province he was? And when he
learned that he was of Cilicia,
35
he said to him: I will give thee audience,
when thy accusers arrive. And he ordered him to
be kept in the Praetorium of Herod.
24:1 And after five days, Ananias the high priest,
with the Elders, and with Tertullus the orator,
went down, and made a communication to the
governor against Paul.
2
And when he had been called, Tertullus began
to accuse him, and to say: Through thee, we
dwell in much tranquillity; and many reforms
have come to this nation, under thy
administration;
3
and we all, in every place, receive thy grace,
excellent Felix.
4 21
But, not to weary thee with numerous
[particulars], I pray thee to hear our humbleness,
in brief.
5
For we have found this man to be an assassin,
and a mover of sedition among all Jews in the
whole land: for he is a ringleader of the sect of
the Nazareans.
6 23
And he was disposed to pollute our temple.
And having seized him we wished to judge him
according to our law.
7 24
But Lysias the Chiliarch came, and with great
violence took him out of our hands, and sent him
to thee.
8
And he commanded his accusers to come
before thee. And if thou wilt interrogate him, thou
canst learn from him respecting all these things
of which we accuse him.
9
And the Jews also pleaded against him,
saying that these things were so.
10
Then the governor made signs to Paul, that
he should speak. And Paul answered and said: I
know thee to have been a judge of this nation for
many years, and I therefore cheerfully enter
upon a defence of myself.
11
Because thou canst understand, that there
have been but twelve days, since I went up to
Jerusalem to worship.
12
And they did not find me talking with any
person in the temple, nor collecting any
company, either in their synagogues, or in the
city.
13
Nor have they the power to prove, before
thee, the things of which they now accuse me.
14
But this indeed I acknowledge, that in that
same doctrine of which they speak, I do serve
the God of my fathers, believing all the things
written in the law and in the prophets.
15
And I have a hope in God, which they also
themselves expect,---that there is to be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous
and the wicked.
16
And for this reason, I also labor to have
always a pure conscience before God, and
before men.
17
And, after many years, I came to the people
of my own nation, to impart alms, and to present
an offering.
18
And when I had purified myself, these men
found me in the temple; not with a throng, nor
with a tumult.
19
But certain Jews, who came from Asia, were
tumultuous; who ought, with me, to stand before
thee, and make accusation of their own affair.
20
Or let these here present say, whether they
found any offence in me, when I stood before
their assembly;
except this one thing, that I cried, while
standing in the midst of them: Concerning the
resurrection of the dead, am I this day on trial
before you.
22
And Felix, because he understood that way
fully, deferred them, saying: When the Chiliarch
shall come, I will give hearing between you.
And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul,
at rest; and that no one of his acquaintances
should be forbidden to minister to him.
And after a few days, Felix, and Drusilla his
wife who was a Jewess, sent and called for
Paul; and they heard him concerning faith in the
Messiah.
25
And while he was discoursing with them on
righteousness, and on holiness, and on the
future judgment, Felix was filled with fear; and
he said: For the present time, go: and when I
have opportunity, I will send for thee.
26
He hoped, moreover, that a present would be
given him by Paul; [and] therefore, he often sent
for him, and conversed with him.
27
And when two years were fulfilled to him,
another governor, whose name was Porcius

Festus, came into his place. And Felix, that he
might do the Jews a favor, left Paul a prisoner.
25:1 And when Festus arrived at Caesarea, he,
after three days, went up to Jerusalem.
2
And the chief priests and the head men of the
Jews made representations to him concerning
Paul.
3
And they petitioned him, asking of him the
favor, that he would send for him to come to
Jerusalem; they placing an ambush to slay him
by the way.
4 19
But Festus made answer: Paul is in custody at
Caesarea, whither I am in haste to go.
5
Therefore, let those among you who are able,
go down with us, and make presentment of
every offence there is in the man.
6
And when he had been there eight or ten
days, he came down to Caesarea. And the next
day, he sat on the tribunal, and commanded
Paul to be brought.
7
And when he came, the Jews who had come
from Jerusalem surrounded him, and preferred
against him many and weighty charges, which
they were unable to substantiate.
8
Meanwhile Paul maintained, that he had
committed no offence, either against the Jewish
law, or against the temple, or against Caesar.
9
But Festus, because he was disposed to
conciliate the favor of the Jews, said to Paul:
Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried
before me for these things?
10
Paul replied, and said: I stand before
Caesar's tribunal: here I ought to be tried.
Against the Jews I have committed no offence,
as thou also well knowest.
11
If I had committed any crime, or done any
thing worthy of death, I would not refuse to die.
But if none of the things of which they accuse
me, is upon me, no one may sacrifice me to their
pleasure. I announce an appeal to Caesar.
12
Then Festus conferred with his counsellors,
and said: Hast thou declared an appeal to
Caesar? Unto Caesar shalt thou go.
13
And when [some] days had passed, Agrippa
the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea
to salute Festus.
14
And when they had been with him: [some]
days, Festus related to the king the case of
Paul, saying: A certain man was left a prisoner
by Felix:
15
And when I was at Jerusalem, the: chief
priests and the Elders of the Jews informed me
respecting him, and desired that I would pass
judgment upon him in their favor.
16
And I told them, It is not the custom of the
Romans, to give up a man gratuitously to be
slain; until his accuser appeareth and chargeth
him to his face, and opportunity is afforded him
to make defence respecting what is charged
upon him.
17
And: when I had come hither, without delay, I
the next day sat on the tribunal, and
commanded the man to be brought before me.
18
And his accusers stood up with him; and they
were not able to substantiate any criminal
charge against him, as I had expected;
but they had certain controversies with him
respecting their worship, and respecting one
Jesus, who died, but who, as Paul said, was
alive.
20
And because I was not well established in
regard to these questions, I said to Paul: Dost
thou ask to go to Jerusalem, and there be
judged concerning these matters?
21
But he requested to be reserved for a trial
before Caesar: and I ordered him to be kept, till I
could send him to Caesar.
22
And Agrippa said: I should like to hear that
man. And Festus said: To-morrow thou shalt
hear him.
23
And the next day, came Agrippa and Bernice,
with great pomp, and entered the house of trials,
with the Chiliarchs and chiefs of the city: and
Festus commanded, and Paul came.
24
And Festus said: King Agrippa, and all
persons present with us; concerning this man
whom ye see, all the people of the Jews applied
to me, at Jerusalem and also here, crying out,
that he ought no longer to live.
25
Yet on investigation, I found that he hath
done nothing deserving death. But, because he
requested to be reserved for the hearing of
Caesar, I have ordered him to be sent.
26
And I know not what I can write to Caesar, in
regard to him: and therefore I wished to bring
him before you, and especially before thee, king
Agrippa; that when his case shall have been
heard, I may find what to write.
27
For it is unsuitable, when we send up a
prisoner, not to designate his offence.
26:1 And Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art
permitted to speak in thy own behalf. Then Paul
extended his hand, and made defence, saying:
2
In regard to all the things of which I am
accused by the Jews, king Agrippa, I consider
myself highly favored, that I may this day make
defence before thee:
3
especially, as I know thee to be expert in all
the controversies and laws of the Jews. I

therefore request thee to hear me with
indulgence.
4 20
The Jews themselves, if they would testify,
know well my course of life from my childhood,
which from the beginning was among my nation
and in Jerusalem.
5
For they have long been persuaded of me,
and have known, that I lived in the princely
doctrine of the Pharisees.
6
And now, for the hope of the promise which
was made by God to our fathers, I stand and am
judged.
7
To this hope, our twelve tribes hope to come,
with earnest prayers by day and by night: and
for this same hope, king Agrippa, I am accused
by the Jews.
8
How judge ye? Are we not to believe, that God
will raise the dead?
9
For I myself, at first, resolved in my own mind,
that I would perpetrate many adverse things
against the name of Jesus the Nazarean.
10
Which I also did at Jerusalem; and by the
authority I received from the chief priests, I cast
many of the saints into prison and when they
were put to death by them, I took part with those
that condemned them.
11
And in every synagogue I tortured them,
while I pressed them to become revilers of the
name of Jesus. And in the great wrath, with
which I was filled against them, I also went to
other cities to persecute them.
12
And, as I was going for this purpose to
Damascus, with the authority and license of the
chief priests,
13
at mid-day, on the road, I saw, O king, a light
exceeding that of the sun, beaming from heaven
upon me, and upon all those with me.
14
And we all fell to the ground; and I heard a
voice, which said to me, in Hebrew: Saul, Saul!
why persecutest thou me? It will be a hard thing
for thee to kick against the goads.
15
And I said: My Lord, who art thou? And our
Lord said to me: I am Jesus the Nazarean,
whom thou persecutest.
16
And he said to me: Stand upon thy feet; for I
have appeared to thee, for this purpose, to
constitute thee a minister and a witness of this
thy seeing me, and of thy seeing me hereafter.
17
And I will deliver thee from the people of the
Jews, and from other nations; to whom I send
thee,
18
to open their eyes; that they may turn from
darkness to the light, and from the dominion of
Satan unto God; and may receive remission of
sins, and a portion with the saints, by faith in me.
19
Wherefore, king Agrippa, I did not
contumaciously withstand the heavenly vision:
but I preached from the first to them in
Damascus, and to them in Jerusalem and in all
the villages of Judaea; and I preached also to
the Gentiles, that they should repent, and should
turn to God, and should do the works suitable to
repentance.
21
And on account of these things, the Jews
seized me in the temple, and sought to kill me.
22
But unto this day God hath helped me; and
lo, I stand and bear testimony, to the small and
to the great; yet saying nothing aside from
Moses and the prophets, but the very things
which they declared were to take place:
23
[namely,] that Messiah would suffer, and
would become the first fruits of the resurrection
from the dead; and that he would proclaim light
to the people and to the Gentiles.
24
And when Paul had extended his defence
thus far, Festus cried, with a loud voice: Paul,
thou art deranged: much study hath deranged
thee.
25
Paul replied to him: I am not deranged,
excellent Festus; but speak words of truth and
rectitude.
26
And king Agrippa is also well acquainted with
these things; and I therefore speak confidently
before him, because I suppose not one of these
things hath escaped his knowledge; for they
were not done in secret.
27
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I
know that thou believest.
28
King Agrippa said to him: Almost, thou
persuadest me to become a Christian.
29
And Paul said: I would to God, that not only
thou, but likewise all that hear me this day, were
almost, and altogether, as I am, aside from
these bonds.
30
And the king rose up, and the governor, and
Bernice, and those who sat with them.
31
And when they had gone out, they conversed
with one another, and said: This man hath done
nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
32
And Agrippa said to Festus: The man might
be set at liberty, if he had not announced an
appeal to Caesar.
27:1 And Festus commanded, respecting him,
that he should be sent to Italy, unto Caesar. And
he delivered Paul, and other prisoners with him,
to a certain man, a centurion of the Augustan
cohort, whose name was Julius.
2
And when we were to depart, we embarked in
a ship which was from the city of Adramyttium,
and was going to the country of Asia. And there

embarked with us in the ship, Aristarchus, a
Macedonian of the city of Thessalonica.
3 20
And the next day, we arrived at Zidon. And the
centurion treated Paul with kindness, and
permitted him to visit his friends and be
refreshed.
4
And on sailing from there, because the winds
were against us, we sailed around to Cyprus.
5
And we passed over the sea of Cilicia and
Pamphylia, and arrived at Myra, a city of Lycia.
6 22
And there the centurion found a ship of
Alexandria, which was going to Italy; and he set
us on board of it.
7 23
And as it was hard navigating, we had
scarcely arrived, after many days, over against
the isle of Cnidos. And, because the wind would
not allow us to pursue a straight course, we
sailed around by Crete, [and came] opposite the
city of Salmone.
8
And with difficulty, after sailing about it, we
arrived at a place called the Fair Havens, near to
which was the city called Lassa.
9
And we were there a long time, and till after
the day of the Jewish fast. And it was hazardous
[then] for any one to go by sea; and Paul
counselled them,
10
and said: Men, I perceive that our voyage will
be [attended] with peril, and with much loss, not
only of the cargo of our ship, but also of our
lives.
11
But the centurion listened to the pilot, and to
the owner of the ship, more than to the words of
Paul.
12
And, because that harbor was not
commodious for wintering in, many of us were
desirous to sail from it, and if possible, to reach
and to winter in a certain harbor of Crete, which
was called Phenice, and which opened towards
the south.
13
And when the south wind breezed up, and
they hoped to arrive as they desired, we began
to sail around Crete.
14
And shortly after, a tempest of wind arose
upon us, called Typhonic Euroclydon.
15
And the ship was whirled about by the wind,
and could not keep head to it; and we resigned
[the ship] to its power.
16
And when we had passed a certain island,
called Cyra, we could hardly retain the boat.
17
And after hoisting it [on board], we girded the
ship around [the waist], and made it strong. And,
because we were afraid of falling upon a
precipice of the sea, we pulled down the sail;
and so we drifted.
18
And as the storm raged violently upon us, we
the next day threw goods into the sea.
19
And on the third day, with our own hands, we
threw away the tackling of the ship.
And as the storm held on for many days, and
as no sun was visible, nor moon, nor stars, all
hope of our surviving was wholly cut off.
21
And as no one had taken a meal of food, Paul
now stood up in the midst of them, and said: If
ye had given heed to me, O men, we should not
have sailed from Crete, and we should have
been exempt from this loss and peril.
And now, I counsel you to be without anxiety;
for not a soul of you will be lost, but only the
ship.
For there appeared to me this night, the angel
of that God whose I am, and whom I serve;
24
and he said to me: Fear not, Paul; for thou art
yet to stand before Caesar; and, lo, God hath
made a gift to thee of all them that sail with thee.
25
Therefore, men, be ye courageous; for I
confide in God, that it will be as was told to me.
26
Yet we are to be cast upon a certain island.
27
And after the fourteen days of our roaming
and tossing on the Adriatic sea, at midnight, the
sailors conceived that they approached land.
28
And they cast the lead, and found twenty
fathoms. And again they advanced a little, and
they found fifteen fathoms.
29
And as we feared lest we should be caught in
places where were rocks, they cast four anchors
from the stern of the ship, and prayed for the
morning.
30
And the sailors sought to flee out of the ship.
And from it they lowered down the boat into the
sea, under pretence that they were going in it to
make fast the ship to the land.
31
And when Paul saw [it], he said to the
centurion and to the soldiers: Unless these
remain in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
32
Then the soldiers cut the boat-rope from the
ship, and let the boat go adrift.
33
And while it was not yet morning, Paul
advised them all to take food, saying to them: In
consequence of the peril, it is now the fourteenth
day that ye have tasted nothing.
34
Therefore I entreat you, to take food for the
sustenance of your life; for not a hair from the
head of any of you, will perish.
35
And having said these things, he took bread,
and gave glory to God before them all; and he
broke [it], and began to eat.
36
And they were all consoled; and they took
nourishment.
37
And there were of us in the ship two hundred
and seventy-six souls.
38
And when they were satisfied with food, they
lightened the ship, and took the wheat and cast
it into the sea.
39
And when it was day, the sailors knew not
what land it was: but they saw on the margin of
the land an inlet of the sea; whither, if possible
they intended to drive the ship.
40
And they cut away the anchors from the ship,
and left them in the sea. And they loosened the
bands of the rudder, and hoisted a small sail to
the breeze, and made way towards the land.
41
And the ship struck upon a shoal between
two channels of the sea, and stuck fast upon it.
And the forward part rested upon it, and was
immovable; but the after part was shattered by
the violence of the waves.
42
And the soldiers were disposed to slay the
prisoners; lest they should resort to swimming,
and escape from them.
43
But the centurion kept them from it, because
he was desirous to preserve Paul. And those
who were able to swim, he commanded to swim
off first, and pass to the land.
44
And the rest, he made to transport
themselves on planks, and on other timbers of
the ship. And so they all escaped safe to land.
28:1 And we afterwards learned, that the island
was called Melita.
2
And the barbarians who inhabited it, showed
us many kindnesses. And they kindled a fire,
and called us all to warm ourselves, because of
the great rain and cold at that time.
3 18
And Paul took up a bundle of fagots and laid
them on the fire: and a viper, [driven] by the
heat, came out of them, and bit his hand.
4 19
And when the barbarians saw it hanging on
his hand, they said: Doubtless, this man is a
murderer; whom, though delivered from the sea,
justice will not suffer to live.
5 20
But Paul shook his hand, and threw the viper
into the fire: and he received no harm.
6
And the barbarians expected, that he would
suddenly swell, and fall dead on the ground. And
when they had looked a long time, and saw that
he received no harm; they changed their
language, and said, that he was a god.
7
And there were lands in that quarter,
belonging to a man named Publius, who was the
chief man of the island: and he cheerfully
received us at his house three days.
8 23
And the father of Publius was sick with a fever
and dysentery. And Paul went in to him, and
prayed, and laid his hand on him, and healed
him.
9
And after this event, others also in the island
who were sick, came to him and were healed.
10
And they honored us with great honors: and
when we left the place, they supplied us with
necessaries.
11
And after three months we departed, sailing
in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in
the island, and which bore the signal of the
Twins.
12
And we came to the city of Syracuse; and
remained there three days.
13
And from there we made a circuit, and arrived
at the city Rhegium. And, after one day, the
south wind blew [favorably] for us, and in two
days we came to Puteoli, a city of Italy.
14
And there we found brethren; and they invited
us, and we remained with them seven days: and
then we proceeded towards Rome.
15
And the brethren there, hearing [of our
approach], came out to meet us as far as the
village called Appii Forum, and as far as the
Three Taverns. And when Paul saw them, he
gave thanks to God, and was encouraged.
16
And we went on to Rome. And the centurion
allowed Paul to reside where he pleased, with a
soldier who guarded him.
17
And after three days, Paul sent and called for
the principal Jews. And when they were
assembled, he said to them: Men, my brethren,
although I had in nothing risen up against the
people or the law of my fathers, I was at
Jerusalem delivered over in bonds to the
Romans:
and they, when they had examined me, were
disposed to release me, because they found in
me no offence deserving death.
And, as the Jews withstood me, I was
compelled to utter an appeal to Caesar; but not
because I had any thing of which to accuse the
people of my nation.
For this reason I sent for you to come, that I
might see you, and might state these things to
you: for it is on account of the hope of Israel,
that I am bound with this chain.
21
They said to him: We have received no
epistle from Judaea against thee; and none of
the brethren who have come from Jerusalem,
have told us any evil thing of thee.
22
But we are desirous to hear from thee what
thou thinkest; for this doctrine, we know, is not
received by any one.
And they appointed him a day; and many
assembled, and came to him at his lodgings.
And he explained to them respecting the
kingdom of God, testifying and persuading them
concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses, and
out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24
And some of them assented to his
discourses, and others did not assent.
25
And they went out from him, disagreeing
among themselves. And Paul addressed to them
this speech: Well did the Holy Spirit, by the
mouth of Isaiah the prophet, speak concerning
your fathers,
26
saying: Go unto this people, and say to them,
Hearing ye will hear, and will not understand;
and ye will see, and will not comprehend.
27
For the heart of this people is stupefied, and
their hearing they have made heavy, and their
eyes they have closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their hearts, and be converted
unto me, and I should forgive them.
28
Therefore, be this known to you, that to the
Gentiles is this redemption of God sent: and,
moreover, they will hear it.
29
And when he had thus said, the Jews retired;
and there were great disputations among
16
them.
30
And Paul hired a house, at his own cost, and
resided in it two years; and there he received all
that came to him.
31
And he preached concerning the kingdom of
God, and taught boldly concerning our Lord
Jesus Messiah, without hinderance.

16
Acts 28:29 - This verse 29 is not in the MSS., nor in
any of the earlier editions: and the later editions
place it in the margin.
The Epistle of Paul the Legate, to the Romans
1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called
and sent; and separated unto the gospel of God,
2 20
(which he had before promised, by his
prophets, in the holy scriptures,
3
concerning his Son, (who was born in the
flesh, of seed of the house of David,
4
and was made known as the Son of God, by
power, and by the Holy Spirit,) who arose from
the dead, Jesus Messiah, our Lord,
5
by whom we have received grace, and a
mission among all the Gentiles, to the end that
they may obey the faith in his name;
6
among whom, ye also are called by Jesus
Messiah;)
7
to all those who are at Rome, beloved of God,
called and sanctified: Peace and grace be with
you, from God our Father, and from our Lord
Jesus Messiah.
8
In the first place, I give thanks to God by
Jesus Messiah, on account of you all; because
your faith is heard of in all the world.
9
And God, whom in spirit I serve in the gospel
of his Son, is my witness, that I unceasingly
make mention of you, at all times, in my prayers.
10
And I likewise supplicate, that hereafter a
door may be opened to me, by the good
pleasure of God, to come unto you.
11
For I long much to see you; and to impart to
you the gift of the Spirit, whereby ye may be
established;
12
and that we may have comfort together, in
the faith of both yourselves and me.
13
And I wish you to know, my brethren, that I
have many times desired to come to you,
(though prevented hitherto,) that I might have
some fruit among you also; even as among
other Gentiles,
14
Greeks and barbarians, the wise and the
unwise: for to every man am I a debtor, to
preach [to him].
15
And so I am eager to preach to you also who
are at Rome.
16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is
the power of God unto life, to all who believe in
it; whether first they are of the Jews, or whether
they are of the Gentiles.
17
For in it is revealed the righteousness of God,
from faith to faith; as it is written, The righteous
by faith, shall live.
18
For the wrath of God from heaven is revealed
against all the iniquity and wickedness of men,
who hold the truth in iniquity.
19
Because a knowledge of God is manifest in
them; for God hath manifested it in them.
For, from the foundations of the world, the
occult things of God are seen, by the intellect, in
the things he created, even his eternal power
and divinity; so that they might be without
excuse;
21
because they knew God, and did not glorify
him and give thanks to him as God, but became
vain in their imaginings, and their unwise heart
was darkened.
22
And, while they thought within themselves
that they were wise, they became fools.
23
And they changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into a likeness to the image of
a corruptible man, and into the likeness of birds
and quadrupeds and reptiles on the earth.
24
For this cause, God gave them up to the filthy
lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with
them.
25
And they changed the truth of God into a lie;
and worshipped and served the created things,
much more than the Creator of them, to whom
belong glory and blessing, for ever and ever:
Amen.
26
For this cause, God gave them up to vile
passions: for their females changed the use of
their natures, and employed that which is
unnatural.
27
And so also their males forsook the use of
females, which is natural, and burned with lust
toward one another; and, male with male, they
did what is shameful, and received in
themselves the just recompense of their error.
28
And as they did not determine with
themselves to know God, God gave them over
to a vain mind; that they might do what they
ought not,
29
being full of all iniquity, and lewdness, and
bitterness, and malice, and covetousness, and
envy, and slaughter, and strife, and guile, and
evil machinations,
30
and backbiting, and slander; and being haters
of God, scoffers, proud, vain-glorious, devisers
of evil things, destitute of reason, disregardful of
parents,
31
and to whom a covenant is nothing, neither
affection, nor peace, and in whom is no
compassion.
32
These, while they know the judgment of God,
that he condemneth those to death who
perpetrate such things, are not only doers of
them, but the companions of such as do them.

2:1 There is therefore no excuse for thee, O
man, that judgest thy neighbor; for by judging
thy neighbor, thou condemnest thyself; for thou
that judgest, dost practise the same things.
2
And we know that the judgment of God is in
accordance with truth, in regard to those who
practise these things.
3
And what thinkest thou, O man, that judgest
those who practise these things, while practising
them thyself, that thou wilt escape the judgment
of God?
4
Or wilt thou abuse the riches of his
benevolence, and his long suffering, and the
opportunity which he giveth thee? And dost thou
not know, that the benevolence of God should
bring thee to repentance?
5
But, because of the hardness of thy
unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store
of wrath against the day of wrath, and against
the revelation of the righteous judgment of God:
6
who will recompense to every man, according
to his deeds;
7
to them who, by perseverance in good works,
seek for glory and honor and immortality, to
them he will give life eternal;
8
but to them who are obstinate and obey not
the truth, but obey iniquity, to them he will
retribute wrath and ire.
9
And tribulation and anguish [will be] to every
man that doeth evil; to the Jews first, and also to
the Gentiles:
10
but glory and honor and peace to every one
that doeth good; to the Jews first, and also to the
Gentiles.
11
For there is no respect of persons with God:
12
for those without law, who sin, will also perish
without law; and those under the law, who sin,
will be judged by the law,
13
(for not the hearers of the law, are righteous
before God; but the doers of the law are
justified;
14
for if Gentiles who have not the law, shall, by
their nature, do the things of the law; they, while
without the law, become a law to themselves:
15
and they show the work of the law, as it is
inscribed on their heart; and their conscience
beareth testimony to them, their own reflections
rebuking or vindicating one another,)
16
in the day in which God will judge the secret
[actions] of men, as my gospel [teacheth], by
Jesus the Messiah.
17
But if thou, who art called a Jew, and
reposest thyself on the law, and gloriest in God,
18
that thou knowest his good pleasure, and
discernest obligations, because thou art
instructed in the law;
19
and hast confidence in thyself, that thou art a
guide to the blind, and a light to them who are in
darkness,
20
and an instructor of those lacking knowledge,
and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the
appearance of knowledge and of verity in the
law:
21
Thou therefore, who teachest others,
teachest thou not thyself? And thou who
teachest that men must not steal, dost thou
steal?
22
And thou who sayest, Men must not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou
who contemnest idols, dost thou plunder the
sanctuary?
23
And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou,
by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?
24
For, the name of God, as it is written, is
reviled among the Gentiles on your account.
25
For circumcision profiteth, indeed, if thou
fulfillest the law: but if thou departest from the
law, thy circumcision becometh uncircumcision.
26
And if uncircumcision should keep the
precepts of the law, would not that
uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
27
And the uncircumcision, which from its nature
fulfilleth the law, will judge thee; who, with the
scripture, and with circumcision, transgressest
against the law.
28
For he is not a Jew, who is so in what is
external: nor is that circumcision, which is visible
in the flesh.
29
But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden:
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,
and not in the letter, whose praise is not from
men, but from God.
3:1 What then is the superiority of the Jew? Or
what is the advantage of circumcision?
2
Much, every way. And first, because to them
were intrusted the oracles of God.
3
For if some of them have not believed, have
they, by their not believing, made the faith of
God inefficient?
4
Far be it: for God is veracious, and every man
false: as it is written: That thou mightest be
upright, in thy declarations; and be found pure,
when they judge thee.
5
But if our iniquity establish the rectitude of
God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous,
when he inflicteth wrath? (I speak as a man.)
6
Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the
world?
7 27
But if the truth of God hath been furthered by
my falsehood, to his glory; why am I then
condemned as a sinner?
8 28
Or shall we say as some have slanderously
reported us to say: We will do evil things, that
good [results] may come? The condemnation of
such is reserved for justice.
9 30
What then, have WE the superiority, when we
have before decided as to both Jews and
Gentiles, that all of them are under sin?
10
As it is written: There is none righteous; no,
no one:
11
and none that understandeth; nor that
seeketh after God.
12
They have all turned aside, together; and
become reprobates. There is none that doeth
good; no, not one.
13
Their throats are open sepulchres, and their
tongues treacherous; and the venom of the asp
is under their lips.
14
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15
and their feet are swift to shed blood.
16
Destruction and anguish are in their paths:
17
and the path of peacefulness they have not
known:
18
and the fear of God is not before their eyes.
19
Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it
saith to them who are under the law; that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world be
guilty before God.
20
Wherefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh
is justified before him: for, by the law, sin is
known.
21
But now, the righteousness of God without
the law, is manifested; and the law and the
prophets testify of it:
22
even the righteousness of God, which is by
faith in Jesus Messiah, for every one, and on
every one, that believeth in him: for there is no
distinction;
23
for they have all sinned, and failed of the
glory of God.
24
And they are justified gratuitously, by grace,
and by the redemption which is in Jesus
Messiah;
25
whom God hath preconstituted a propitiation,
by faith in his blood, because of our sins, which
we before committed,
26
in the space which God in his long suffering
gave to us, for the manifestation of his
righteousness at the present time; that he might
be righteous, and might with righteousness
justify him who is in the faith of our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
Where then is glorying? It is annihilated. By
what law? by that of works? Nay: but by the law
of faith.
We therefore conclude, that it is by faith a
man is justified, and not by the works of the law.
29
For, is he the God of the Jews only, and not
of the Gentiles? Nay: of the Gentiles also.
Because there is, one God, who justifieth the
circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision by
the same faith.
31
Do, we then nullify the law by faith? Far be it.
On the contrary, we establish the law.
4:1 What then shall we say concerning Abraham
the patriarch, that by the flesh he obtained?
2
But if Abraham was justified by works, he had
[ground of] glorying; yet not before God.
3
For what saith the scripture? That Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
4
But to him that worketh, the reward is not
reckoned as of grace, but as a debt to him.
5
Whereas, to him that worketh not, but only
believeth in him that justifieth sinners, his faith is
accounted to him for righteousness.
6
As David also speaketh of the blessedness of
the man, to whom God reckoneth righteousness
without works,
7
saying: Blessed are they, whose iniquity is
forgiven, and whose sins are covered up:
8
and, Blessed is the man, to whom God will not
reckon his sin.
9
This blessedness, therefore, is it on the
circumcision? or on the uncircumcision? For we
say, that Abraham's faith was reckoned to him
for righteousness.
10
How then was it reckoned to him? In
circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11
For he received circumcision, as the sign and
the seal of the righteousness of his faith while in
uncircumcision: that he might become the father
of all them of the uncircumcision who believe;
and that it might be reckoned to them also for
righteousness:
12
and the father of the circumcision; not to them
only who are of the circumcision, but to them
also who fulfill the steps of the faith of our father
Abraham in [his] uncircumcision.
13
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed,
that he should become the heir of the world, was
not by the law, but by the righteousness of his
faith.
14
For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith
would be made void, and the promise of no
force.
15
For the law is a worker of wrath; because
where no law is, there is no transgression of law.
16
Wherefore, it is by the faith which is by grace,
that we are justified: so that the promise may be
sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of
the law, but also to that which is of the faith of
Abraham, who is the father of us all:
17
as it is written: "I have constituted thee a
father to a multitude of nations;" [namely] before
God, in whom thou hast believed; who
quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things
which are not, as if they were.
18
And without hope, he confided in the hope of
becoming the father of a multitude of nations;
(as it is written: So will thy seed be.)
19
And he was not sickly in his faith, while
contemplating his inert body, (for he was a
hundred years old,) and the inert womb of
Sarah.
20
And he did not hesitate at the promise of
God, as one lacking faith; but he was strong in
faith, and gave glory to God;
21
and felt assured, that what God had promised
to him, he was able to fulfill.
22
And therefore it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
23
And not for his sake alone, was it written, that
his faith was accounted for righteousness;
24
but for our sakes also; because it is to be
accounted [so] to us, who believe in him that
raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead;
25
who was delivered up, on account of our sins;
and arose, that he might justify us.
5:1 Therefore, because we are justified by faith,
we shall have peace with God, through our Lord
Jesus Messiah.
2
By whom we are brought by faith into this
grace, in which we stand and rejoice in the hope
of the glory of God.
3
And not only so, but we also rejoice in
afflictions; because we know that affliction
perfecteth in us patience;
4 20
and patience, experience; and experience,
hope:
5
and hope maketh not ashamed because the
love of God is diffused in our hearts, by the Holy
Spirit who is given to us.
6
And if at this time, on account of our
weakness, Messiah died for the ungodly:
7
(for rarely doth one die for the ungodly; though
for the good, some one perhaps might venture
to die:)
8
God hath here manifested his love towards us.
Because, if when we were sinners, Messiah died
for us;
9
how much more, shall we now be justified by
his blood and be rescued from wrath by him?
10
For if when we were enemies, God was
reconciled with us by the death of his Son; how
much more shall we, in his reconciliation, live by
his life?
11
And not only so, but we also rejoice in God,
by means of our Lord Jesus Messiah, through
whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12
As by means of one man, sin entered into the
world, and, by means of sin, death; and so death
passed upon all the sons of men, inasmuch as
they all have sinned:
13
For until the law, sin, although it was in the
world, was not accounted sin, because there
was no law.
14
Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses,
even over those who had not sinned after the
likeness of the transgression of the command by
Adam, who was the type of him that was to
come.
15
But not, as the fault, so also the free gift. For
if, on account of the fault of one, many died; how
much more, will the grace of God and his free
gift, on account of one man, Jesus Messiah,
abound unto many?
16
And not, as the offence of one, so also the
free gift. For the judgment, which was of one
[offence], was unto condemnation; but the free
gift was, of many sins, unto righteousness.
17
For if, on account of the offence of one, death
reigned; still more, they who receive the
abundance of the grace, and the free gift, and
the righteousness, will reign in life, by means of
one, Jesus Messiah.
18
Therefore, as on account of the offence of
one, condemnation was to all men; so on
account of the righteousness of one, will the
victory unto life be to all men.
19
For as, on account of the disobedience of one
man, many became sinners; so also, on account
of the obedience of one, many become
righteous.
And the entrance given to the law, was that
sin might increase: and where sin increased,
there grace abounded.
21
So that, as sin had reigned in death, so grace
might reign in righteousness unto life eternal, by
means of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
6:1 What shall we then say? Shall we continue
in sin, that grace may abound?
2
Far be it: for if we are persons that have died
to sin, how can we again live in it?
3
Or do ye not know, that we who are baptized
into Jesus Messiah, are baptized into his death?
4
For we are buried with him in baptism unto
death; that as Jesus Messiah arose from the
dead into the glory of his Father, so also we, to
walk in a new life.
5
For if we have been planted together with him
into the likeness of his death, so shall we be
also into his resurrection.
6
For we know, that our old man is crucified with
him; that the body of sin might be abolished, and
we be no more servants to sin:
7 2
for he that is dead [to it], is emancipated from
sin.
8
If then we are dead with Messiah, let us
believe that we shall live with the same Messiah.
9 3
For we know that Messiah rose from the dead,
and no more dieth; death hath no dominion over
him.
10
For in dying, he died for sin, once; and in
living, he liveth unto God.
11
So also do ye account yourselves as being
dead to sin, and alive to God, through our Lord
Jesus Messiah.
12
Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body,
so that ye obey its lusts.
13
And also give not up your members as
instruments of evil unto sin, but give up
yourselves to God, as those who have been
resuscitated from the dead; and let your
members be instruments for the righteousness
of God.
14
And sin shall not have dominion over you; for
ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not
under the law, but under grace? Far be it.
16
Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give up
yourselves to serve in bondage, his servants ye
are, whom ye serve; whether it be to sin, or
whether it be to righteousness, that ye give ear?
17
But thanks be to God, that ye were [once] the
servants of sin but have [now] from the heart
obeyed that form of doctrine to which ye are
devoted.
18
And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye
became servants to righteousness.
19
—(I speak as among men, because of the
infirmity of your flesh.)—As ye [once] gave up
your members to the servitude of pollution and
iniquity, so also now give ye up your members to
the servitude of righteousness and sanctity.
20
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye
were emancipated from righteousness.
21
And what harvest had ye then, in that of
which ye are now ashamed? For the result
thereof is death.
22
And now, as ye have been emancipated from
sin, and have become servants to God, your
fruits are holy; and the result thereof is life
everlasting.
23
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift
of God is life eternal, through our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
7:1 Or do ye not know, my Brethren.—(for I am
speaking to them that know the law,)— that the
law hath dominion over a man, as long as he is
alive?
Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her
husband, as long as he is alive: but if her
husband should die, she is freed from the law of
her husband.
And if, while her husband is alive, she should
adhere to another man, she would become an
adulteress: but if her husband should die, she is
freed from the law; and would not be an
adulteress though joined to another man.
4
And now, my brethren, ye also have become
dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye
might be joined to another, [even] to him who
arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto
God.
5
For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of
sin which are by the law, were active in our
members, that we should bear fruits unto death.
6
But now we are absolved from the law, and
are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that
we might henceforth serve in the newness of the
spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far
be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means
of the law: for I had not known concupiscence,
had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:
8
and by this commandment, sin found
occasion, and perfected in me all
concupiscence: for without the law, sin was
dead.
9
And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but
when the commandment came, sin became
alive, and I died;
10
and the commandment of life was found by
me [to be] unto death.
11
For sin, by the occasion which it found by
means of the commandment, seduced me; and
thereby slew me.
12
Wherefore, the law is holy; and the
commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.
13
Did that which is good, therefore, become
death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be
seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means
of that good [law]; that sin might the more be
condemned, by means of the commandment.
14
For we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am
carnal, and sold to sin.
15
For what I am doing, I know not: and what I
would, I do not perform; but what I hate, that I
do.
16
And if I do what I would not, I testify of the
law, that it is right.
17
And then, it is no more I who do that thing;
but sin, which dwelleth in me.
18
For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh,)
good dwelleth not: because, to approve the
good, is easy for me; but to do it, I am unable.
19
For I do not perform the good, which I would
perform; but the bad, which I would not perform,
that I do perform.
20
And if I do what I would not, it is not I that do
it, but sin which dwelleth in me.
21
I find therefore a law coinciding with my
conscience, which assenteth to my doing good,
whereas evil is near to me.
22
For I rejoice in the law of God, in the interior
man.
23
But I see another law in my members, which
warreth against the law of my conscience, and
maketh me a captive to the law of sin which
existeth in my members
24
O, a miserable man, am I! Who will rescue
me from this body of death?
25
I thank God; by means of our Lord Jesus
Messiah [I shall be rescued.] Now, therefore, in
my conscience, I am a servant of the law of
God; but in my flesh, I am a servant of the law of
sin.
8:1 There is therefore no condemnation, to them
who, in Jesus Messiah, walk not after the flesh.
2 20
For the law of the spirit of life, which is in
Jesus Messiah, hath emancipated thee from the
law of sin and death.
3 21
Inasmuch as the law was impotent, by means
of the weakness of the flesh, God sent his Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin;
that He might, in his flesh, condemn sin;
4
so that the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us; since it is not in the flesh that we
walk, but in the Spirit.
5
For they who are in the flesh, do mind the
things of the flesh: and they who are of the
Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit.
6
For minding the things of the flesh, is death;
but minding the things of the Spirit, is life and
peace.
7
Because minding the things of the flesh, is
enmity towards God: for it doth not subject itself
to the law of God, because it is not possible.
8
And they who are in the flesh cannot please
God.
9
Ye, however, are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit; if the Spirit of God truly dwelleth in you.
And if in any one there is not the Spirit of
Messiah he is none of his.
10
But if Messiah is in you, the body is dead, in
regard to sin; and the Spirit is alive in regard to
righteousness.
11
And if the Spirit of him, who raised our Lord
Jesus Messiah from the dead, dwelleth in you;
he who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the
dead, will also vivify your dead bodies, because
of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12
Now we are debtors, my Brethren, not to the
flesh, that we should walk according to the flesh:
13
(For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are to
die. But if, by the Spirit, ye mortify the practices
of the body, ye will live.
14
For they who are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God:)
15
For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage, again to fear; but ye have received the
Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Father, our
Father.
16
And this Spirit testifieth to our spirit, that we
are the sons of God.
17
And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and
participators of the inheritance of Jesus
Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall
also be glorified with him.
18
For I reckon, that the sufferings of the present
time, are not comparable with the glory which is
to be developed in us.
19
For the whole creation is hoping and waiting
for the development of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not
by its own choice, but because of him who
subjected it,
in the hope, that also the creation itself would
be emancipated from the bondage of corruption,
into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God.
22
For we know, that all the creatures are
groaning and travailing in pain unto this day.
23
And not only they, but we also in whom are
the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within
ourselves, and look anxiously for the adoption of
sons, the redemption of our bodies.
24
Because we live in hope. But hope that is
seen, is not hope: for if we saw it, how should
we hope for it?
25
But if we hope for that which is not seen, we
are in patient waiting.
26
So also the Spirit aideth our weakness. For
we know not what to pray for, in a proper
manner; but the Spirit prayeth for us, with
groans not expressible:
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and the explorer of hearts, he knoweth what
is the mind of the Spirit; because he prayeth for
the saints, agreeably to the good pleasure of
God.
28
And we know that he aideth him in all things,
for good, who love God; them whom he
predestined to be called.
29
And he knew them, previously; and he sealed
them with the likeness of the image of his Son;
that He might be the first-born of many brothers.
30
And those whom he previously sealed, them
he called: and those whom he called, them he
justified: and those whom he justified, them he
glorified.
31
What then shall we say of these things? If
God [is] for us; who [is] against us?
32
And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him
up for us all, how shall he not give us all things,
with him?
33
Who will set himself against the chosen of
God? It is God who justifieth.
34
Who is it that condemneth? Messiah died,
and arose, and is on the right hand of God, and
maketh intercession for us.
35
What will sever me from the love of Messiah?
Will affliction? or distress? or persecution? or
famine? or nakedness? or peril? or the sword?
36
As it is written: For thy sake, we die daily:
and, we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
37
But in all these things we are victorious, by
means of him who loved us.
38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
39
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
17
will be able to sever me from the love of God,
which is in our Lord Jesus Messiah.
9:1 I say the truth in Messiah, and do not
misrepresent; and my conscience beareth me
witness in the Holy Spirit;
2
that I have great sorrow, and the sadness of
my heart is unceasing.
3
For I have prayed, that I myself might be
accursed from Messiah, for my brethren and my
kinsmen in the flesh:
4
who are sons of Israel, to whom belonged the
adoption of sons, and the glory, and the
covenants, and the law, and the ministration,
and the promises, and the fathers;
5 23
and from among whom, Messiah appeared in
the flesh, who is God over all; to whom be
17
Romans 8:39 – This represents the Western
reading, the Eastern Peshitta reads, “us.”
praises and benediction, for ever and ever;
Amen.
6
Not, however, that the word of God hath
actually failed. For all are not Israel, who are of
Israel.
7
Neither are they all sons, because they are of
the seed of Abraham: for it was said, In Isaac
shall thy seed be called.
8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh, who
are the children of God; but the children of the
promise, are accounted for the seed.
9
For the word of promise was this: At that time
will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10
Nor this only; but Rebecca also, when she
had cohabited with one [man], our father Isaac,
11
before her children were born, or: had done
good or evil, the choice of God was predeclared;
that it might stand, not of works, but of him who
called.
12
For it was said: The elder shall be servant to
the younger.
13
As it is written: Jacob have I loved, and Esau
have I hated.
14
What shall we say then? Is there iniquity with
God? Far be it.
15
Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have
pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be
merciful, to whom I will be merciful.
16
Therefore, it is not of him who is willing, nor of
him who runneth, but of the merciful God.
17
For in the scripture, he said to Pharaoh: For
this very thing, have I raised thee up; that I might
shew my power in thee, and that my name might
be proclaimed in all the earth.
18
Wherefore, he hath pity upon whom he
pleaseth; and whom he pleaseth, he hardeneth.
19
But, perhaps thou wilt say: Of what [then]
doth he complain? For, who hath resisted his
pleasure?
20
Thou, thus! Who art thou? O man; that thou
repliest against God! Shall the potter's vessel
say to the former of it, Why hast thou formed me
so?
21
Hath not the potter dominion over his clay out
of the same mass to make vessels, one for
honor, and another for dishonor?
22
And if God, being disposed to exhibit his
wrath and to make known his power, in
abundance of long-suffering, brought wrath upon
the vessels of wrath which were complete for
destruction;
and made his mercy flow forth upon the
vessels of mercy, which were prepared by God
for glory;
24
namely, upon us who are called, not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles:
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As also he said in Hosea: I will call them my
people, who were not my people; and will pity,
whom I have not pitied:
26
For it shall be, that in the place where they
were called: Not my people, there shall they be
called: The children of the living God.
27
And Isaiah proclaimed concerning the
children of Israel: Though the number of the
children of Israel should be as the sand on the
sea, a remnant of them will live.
28
He hath finished and cut short the matter: and
the LORD will do it on the earth.
29
And according to what Isaiah had before said:
If the LORD of hosts had not favored us with a
residue, we had been as Sodom, and had been
like Gomorrha.
30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
who ran not after righteousness, have found
righteousness, even the righteousness which is
by faith:
31
But Israel, who ran after the law of
righteousness, hath not found the law of
righteousness.
32
And why? Because [they sought it], not by
faith, but by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumbling-stone:
33
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a
stumbling-stone, and a stone of offence: and he
who believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.
10:1 My Brethren, The desire of my heart, and
my intercession with God for them, is, that they
might have life.
2
For I bear them witness, that there is in them a
zeal for God; but it is not according to
knowledge.
3 20
For they know not the righteousness of God,
but seek to establish their own righteousness:
and therefore they have not submitted
themselves to the righteousness of God.
4
For Messiah is the aim of the law, for
righteousness, unto every one that believeth in
him.
5
For Moses describeth the righteousness,
which is by the law, thus: Whoever shall do
these things, shall live by them.
6 2
But the righteousness which is by faith, saith
thus: Thou shalt not say in thy heart, Who
ascendeth to heaven, and bringeth Messiah
down?
7 3
Or, Who descendeth to the abyss of the grave,
and bringeth up Messiah from the place of the
dead?
8 4
But what saith it? The thing is near to thy
mouth, and to thy heart: that is, the word of faith,
which we proclaim.
9
And if thou shalt confess with thy mouth our
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe with thy heart, that
God hath raised him from the dead; thou shalt
live.
10
For the heart that believeth in him, is justified;
and the mouth that confesseth him, is restored
to life.
11
For the scripture saith: Every one that
believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.
12
And in this, it discriminateth neither Jews nor
Gentiles. For there is one LORD over them all,
who is rich, towards every one that calleth on
him.
13
For every one that shall call on the name of
the LORD, will have life.
14
How then shall they call on him, in whom they
have not believed? Or, how shall they believe in
him, of whom they have not heard? Or, how
shall they hear, without a preacher?
15
Or, how shall they preach, if they are not sent
forth? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet
of the heralds of peace, and of the heralds of
good things?
16
But all of them have not obeyed the
proclamation of the gospel. (For, Isaiah said: My
Lord, who hath believed our proclamation?)
17
Therefore, faith is from the hearing of the ear;
and the hearing of the ear, is from the word of
God.
18
But I say: Have they not heard? And, lo, their
proclamation hath gone out into all the earth;
and their words to the ends of the world.
19
But I say: Did not Israel know? First, Moses
said, thus: I will awaken your emulation, by a
people which is not a people; and by a
disobedient people, I will provoke you.
And Isaiah was bold, and said: I was seen by
those who sought me not; and I was found by
those who inquired not for me.
21
But to Israel, he said: All the day, have I
stretched out my hands to a contentious and
disobedient people.
11:1 But I say: Hath God cast off his people?
Far be it. For I also am of Israel, of the seed of
Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast off those his people whom
he before knew. Do ye not know, what, in the
scripture of God, he said to Elijah? When he had
complained to God against Israel, and said:
My Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and
have thrown down thy altars; and I am left alone;
and they seek my life.
And it was said to him, by revelation: Behold, I
have reserved for myself seven thousand men,

who have not bowed their knees, and have not
worshipped Baal.
5
So also at the present time, a remnant is
preserved, by the election of grace.
6
But if by grace, it is not by works: otherwise,
grace is not grace. And if by works, it is not by
grace: Otherwise, work is not work.
7
What then? Israel did not obtain that which it
sought: but the election obtained it; and the rest
of them were blinded in their heart,
8
—(as it is written: God gave them a stupid
spirit, and eyes to see not, and ears to hear not),
unto this very day.
9 26
And again, David said: Let their table become
a snare before them; and let their recompense
be a stumbling block.
10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;
and let their back, at all times, be bowed down.
11
But I say: Have they so stumbled as to fall
entirely? Far be it. Rather, by their stumbling, life
hath come to the Gentiles, for [awakening] their
jealousy.
12
And if their stumbling was riches to the world,
and their condemnation riches to the Gentiles;
how much more their completeness?
13
But [it is] to you Gentiles, I am speaking: as I
am a legate to the Gentiles, I honor my ministry;
14
if, perhaps, I may provoke emulation in the
children of my flesh, and may vivify some of
them.
15
For if the rejection of them, was a
reconciliation of the world; what will their
conversion be, but life from the dead?
16
For, if the first-fruits [are] holy, then the mass
[is] also: and if the root is holy, then also the
branches.
17
And if some of the branches were plucked off;
and thou, an olive from the desert, wast in-
grafted in their place, and hast become a
participator of the root and fatness of the olive-
tree;
18
do not glory over the branches. For if thou
gloriest, thou sustainest not the root, but the root
sustaineth thee.
19
And shouldst thou say, The branches were
plucked off, that I might be grafted into their
place.
20
Very true. They were plucked off, because
they believed not; and thou standest by faith. Be
not exalted in thy mind, but fear.
21
For if God spared not the natural branches,
perhaps he will not spare you.
22
Behold now the benignity and the severity of
God: on them who fell, severity; but on thee,
benignity, if thou continuest in that benignity;
and if not, thou also wilt be plucked off.
23
And they, if they do not continue in their
destitution of faith, even they will be grafted in;
for God is able to graft them in again.
24
For if thou wast plucked from the wild olive-
tree, which was natural to thee, and wast
grafted, contrary to thy nature, into a good olive-
tree; how much more may they be grafted into
their natural olive-tree?
25
And that ye, my brethren, may not be wise in
your own apprehension, I wish you to know this
mystery, that blindness of heart hath in some
measure befallen Israel, until the fullness of the
Gentiles shall come in:
and then, will all Israel live. As it is written: A
deliverer will come from Zion, and will turn away
iniquity from Jacob.
27
And then will they have the covenant that
proceedeth from me, when I shall have forgiven
their sins.
28
Now, in the gospel, they are enemies for your
sake; but in the election, they are beloved for the
fathers' sake.
29
For God is not changeable in his free gift and
in his calling.
30
For as ye too were formerly disobedient to
God, and have now obtained mercy, because of
their disobedience;
31
so also are they now disobedient to the
mercy, which is upon you, that there may be
mercy on them likewise.
32
For God hath shut up all men in
disobedience, that upon all men he might have
mercy.
33
O the depth of the riches, and the wisdom,
and the knowledge of God! For man hath not
searched out his judgments; and his ways are
inscrutable.
34
For who hath known the mind of the LORD?
Or who hath been a counsellor to him?
35
Or who hath first given to him, and then
received from him?
36
Because, all is from him, and all by him, and
all through him: to whom be praises and
benedictions, for ever and ever: Amen.
12:1 I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by
a rational service [of him].
2
And be not conformed to this world; but be ye
transformed, by the renovation of your minds:
and discern ye what is the good and acceptable
and perfect pleasure of God.
3
And, by the grace given to me, I say to you all:
Do not carry thoughts, beyond what ye ought to

think; but think with modesty, as God hath
distributed to each one his measure of faith.
4
For as we [severally] have many members in
one body, and all those members have not the
same functions;
5
so also we, who are [collectively] many
persons, are one body in Messiah, and are
naturally members of each other.
6
But we have different gifts, according to the
grace given to us. There is that of prophecy,
according to the measure of his faith.
7
And there is that of ministration, possessed by
one in his ministry. And there is that of a
teacher, in his teaching.
8 4
And there is that of a consoler, in his
consoling: And that of a giver, with simplicity:
And that of a presider, with dexterity: And of a
18
sympathizer, with cheerfulness.
9
Let not your love be guileful: but be haters of
evil things, and adherers to good things.
10
Be affectionate to your brethren: and love one
another. Be foremost in honoring one another.
11
Be active; and not slothful. Be fervent in spirit.
Be laborers for our Lord.
12
Be joyful in your hope. Be patient under your
afflictions. Be persevering in prayer.
13
Be communicators to the wants of the saints.
Be kind to strangers.
14
Bless your persecutors: bless, and curse not.
15
Rejoice with them who rejoice: and weep with
them who weep.
16
What estimation ye make of yourselves,
[make] also of your brethren. And indulge not
high thoughts; but unite yourselves with the
lowly minded. And be not wise in your own
estimation.
17
And repay to no man evil for evil: but let it be
your study to do good before all men.
18
And if possible, so far as it dependeth on you,
live in peace with every man.
19
And be ye not avengers of yourselves, my
beloved: but give place to wrath. For it is written:
If thou dost not execute judgment for thyself, I
will execute judgment for thee, saith God.
20
And if thy adversary be hungry, feed him: and
if he be thirsty, give him drink. For if thou doest
these things to him, thou wilt heap coals of fire
on his head.
18
Romans 12:8 - In this catalogue of gifts, verses 6,
7, 8, the Syriac merely describes them, giving no
directions for the right use of them. Whether the
Greek can admit the same exposition, the learned
will decide.
21
Be ye not overcome by evil; but overcome
evil with good.
13:1 Let every soul be subject to the authorities
of magistracy. For there is no authority which is
not from God: and the authorities which exist,
are established by God.
2
He therefore who opposeth the authority,
opposeth the establishment of God; and they
who oppose them, shall receive judgment.
3
For judges are not a terror to good deeds, but
to evil deeds. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of
the authority? Do good, and thou shalt have
praise from it.
For he is the minister of God; but it is to thee
for good. But if thou doest evil, be afraid; for he
is not girded with the sword in vain; for he is a
minister of God, and an avenger of wrath to
them that do evil things.
5
And therefore, it is necessary for us to be
obedient, not only on account of wrath, but
likewise on account of our consciences.
6
For this cause also ye pay tribute money; for
they are the ministers of God, established for
these same objects.
7
Render therefore to every one, as is due to
him; tribute-money, to whom tribute-money; and
excise, to whom excise; and fear, to whom fear;
and honor, to whom honor.
8
And owe nothing to any one; but to love one
another. For he that loveth his neighbor, hath
fulfilled the law.
9
For this likewise, which it saith: Thou shalt not
kill; nor commit adultery; nor steal; nor covet;
and if there is any other commandment, it is
completed in this sentence: Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.
10
Love doeth no evil to one's neighbor;
because love is the fulfillment of the law.
11
And this also know ye, that it is the time and
the hour, that we should henceforth be awake
from our sleep. For now our life hath come
nearer to us, than when we believed.
12
The night now passeth away, and the day
draweth near. Let us therefore cast from us the
works of darkness; and let us put on the armor
of light.
13
And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not
in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity
of the bed, nor in envy and strife.
14
But clothe yourselves with our Lord Jesus
Messiah: and be not thoughtful about your flesh,
for the indulgence of appetites.

14:1 To him who is feeble in the faith, reach
forth the hand. And be not divided in your
thoughts.
2 19
For one man believeth, that he may eat every
thing: and he that is feeble, eateth herbs.
3 20
And he that eateth, should not despise him
that eateth not; and he that eateth not, should
not judge him that eateth, for God hath received
him.
4 21
Who art thou, that thou judgest a servant not
thine; and who, if he standeth, he standeth to his
Lord; and if he falleth, he falleth to his Lord? But
he will assuredly stand; for his Lord hath power
to establish him.
5
One man discriminateth between days; and
another judgeth all days alike. But let every one
be sure, in regard to his knowledge.
6
He that esteemeth a day, esteemeth [it] for his
Lord: and he that esteemeth not a day, for his
Lord, he doth not esteem [it.] And he that eateth,
eateth to his Lord, and giveth thanks to God:
and he that eateth not, to his Lord he eateth not,
and giveth thanks to God.
7 2
For there is not one of us, who liveth for
himself: and there is not one, who dieth for
himself.
8
Because, if we live, to our Lord it is we live; or
if we die, to our Lord it is we die. Whether we
live, therefore, or whether we die, we are our
Lord's.
9
Moreover, for this cause Messiah died, and
revived, and arose; that he might be LORD of the
dead and of the living.
10
But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or,
why dost thou despise thy brother? For we must
all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah,
11
as it is written: As I live, saith the LORD, to me
every knee shall bow; and to me every tongue
shall give praise.
12
So then, every one of us must give account of
himself to God.
13
Henceforth, judge ye not one another; but
rather, judge ye this, that thou erect not a
stumbling-block for thy brother.
14
I know indeed, and am persuaded by the
LORD Jesus, that there is nothing which is
unclean in itself; but to him who thinketh any
thing to be unclean, to him only it is defiled.
15
But if thou grievest thy brother, because of
food, thou walkest not in love. On account of
food, destroy not him for whom Messiah died.
16
And let not our good thing be matter of
reproach.
17
For the kingdom of God, is not food and
drink; but is righteousness, and peace, and joy
in the Holy Spirit.
18
For he who is in these things a servant of
Messiah, is pleasing to God, and approved
before men.
Now let us strive after peace, and after the
edification of one another.
And let us not, on account of food, destroy
the work of God. For every thing is, [indeed,]
pure; yet it is evil, to the man who eateth with
stumbling.
It is proper, that we neither eat flesh, nor
drink wine, nor [do] any thing, whereby our
brother is stumbled.
22
Thou art one in whom there is faith; keep it to
thyself, before God. Blessed is he, who doth not
condemn himself, in that thing which he
alloweth.
23
For he who eateth and doubteth, is
condemned; because [he eateth] not in faith. For
every thing which is not of faith, is sin.
15:1 We then who are strong, ought to bear the
infirmity of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
But each of us should please his neighbor, in
good things, as conducive to edification.
3
Because Messiah also did not please himself;
but, as it is written: The reviling of thy revilers fell
upon me.
4
For every thing written of old, was written for
our instruction; that we, by patience and by the
consolation of the scriptures, might possess
hope.
5
And may the God of patience and of
consolation, grant to you, to think in harmony
one with another, in Jesus Messiah;
6
so that with one mind and one mouth, ye may
glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
7
Wherefore, receive ye and bear up one
another, as also Messiah received you, to the
glory of God.
8
Now I say, that Jesus Messiah ministered to
the circumcision, in behalf of the truth of God, in
order to confirm the promise [made] to the
fathers;
9
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his
mercies upon them, as it is written: I will confess
to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will
I sing psalms.
10
And again he said: Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with
his people.
11
And again he said: Praise the LORD, all ye
Gentiles; [and] laud him, all ye nations.
12
And again Isaiah said: There will be a root of
Jesse; and he that shall arise, will be a prince for
the Gentiles; and in him will the Gentiles hope.
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy
and peace, by faith; that ye may abound in his
hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
14
Now I am persuaded, my Brethren, even I,
concerning you; that ye too are full of goodness,
and are replenished with all knowledge, and are
able also to instruct others.
15
Yet I have written rather boldly to you, my
Brethren, that I might put you in remembrance;
because of the grace which is given to me by
God,
16
that I should be a minister of Jesus Messiah
among the Gentiles, and should subserve the
gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles
might be acceptable, and be sanctified by the
Holy Spirit.
17
I have therefore a glorying in Jesus Messiah,
before God.
18
Yet I presume not to speak of any thing
[done] for the obedience of the Gentiles, which
Messiah hath not wrought by me, in word and in
deeds,
19
by the power of signs and wonders, and by
the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from
Jerusalem I have made a circuit quite to
Illyricum, and have fulfilled the announcement of
the Messiah;
20
while I was careful not to preach where the
name of Messiah had been invoked, lest I
should build upon another man's foundation;
21
but, it is written: They, to whom mention of
him had not been made, will see him; and they,
who had not heard, will be obedient.
22
And on this account, I have been many times
prevented from coming to you.
23
But now, since I have no place in these
regions, and as I have been desirous for many
years past to come to you,
24
when I go to Spain, I hope to come and see
you; and that ye will accompany me thither,
when I shall have been satisfied, in some
measure, with visiting you.
25
But I am now going to Jerusalem, to minister
to the saints.
26
For they of Macedonia and Achaia, have
been willing to make up a contribution for the
needy saints who are at Jerusalem.
27
They were willing, because they were also
debtors to them: for if the Gentiles have been
participators with them in the Spirit, they are
debtors to serve them also in things of the flesh.
28
When therefore, I shall have accomplished
this, and shall have sealed to them this fruit, I
will pass by you into Spain.
29
And I know that when I come to you, I shall
come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel
of Messiah.
30
And I beseech you, my Brethren, by our Lord
Jesus Messiah, and by the love of the Spirit, that
ye labor with me in prayer to God for me;
31
that I may be delivered from them in Judaea,
who believe not and that the ministration, which I
carry to the saints in Jerusalem, may be well
received;
32
and that, by the good pleasure of God, I may
come to you with joy, and may take comfort with
you.
33
And may the God of peace be with you all:
Amen.
16:1 And I commend to you Phebe, our sister,
who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea:
2
that ye may receive her in our Lord, as is just
for saints; and that ye may assist her, in
whatever thing she may ask of you: for she also
hath been assistant to many, and to me also.
3
Salute ye Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow-
laborers in Jesus Messiah;
4
who, for my life, surrendered their own necks;
and to whom, not only I am grateful, but also all
the churches of the Gentiles.
5
And give a salutation to the church which is in
their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who
was the first-fruits of Achaia in Messiah.
6
Salute Mary, who hath toiled much with you.
7
Salute Andronicus and Junia, my relatives,
who were in captivity with me, and are of note
among the legates, and were in Messiah before
me.
8
Salute Amplias, my beloved in our Lord.
9
Salute Urbanus, a laborer with us in Messiah;
and my beloved Stachys.
10
Salute Apelles, chosen in our Lord. Salute the
members of the house of Aristobulus.
11
Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute the
members of the house of Narcissus, who are in
our Lord.
12
Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who toil in
our Lord. Salute my beloved Persis, who toiled
much in our Lord.
13
Salute Rufus, chosen in our Lord; and his and
my mother.
14
Salute Asyncritus, and Phlegon, and Hermas,
and Patrobas, and Hermes, and the brethren
who are with them.
15
Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his
sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are
with them.
16
Salute one another, with a holy kiss. All the
churches of Messiah salute you.
17
And I beseech you, my Brethren, that ye
beware of them who cause divisions and
stumblings [among you], aside from the doctrine
which ye have learned: and that ye stand aloof
from them.
18
For they who are such, do not serve our Lord
Jesus Messiah, but their own belly: and by bland
speeches and good wishes, they beguile the
hearts of the simple.
19
But your obedience is known to every one. I
therefore rejoice in you: and I would have you be
wise in what is good, and blameless in what is
evil.
20
And the God of peace will soon crush Satan
under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus
Messiah, be with you.
21
Timothy, my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and
Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
22
I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute
you in the Lord.
23
Gaius, hospitable to me and to all the church,
saluteth you. Erastus, the steward of the city,
and Quartus a brother, salute you.
24
Now unto God, who is able to establish
you,— (according to my gospel, which is
proclaimed concerning Jesus Messiah; and
according to the revelation of the mystery, which
was hidden from the times that are past,
25
but is at this time revealed, by means of the
scriptures of the prophets; and by the command
of the eternal God, is made known to all the
Gentiles, for the obedience of faith;)
26
[to him] who only is wise, be glory, through
Jesus Messiah, for ever and ever: Amen.
27
The grace of our Lord Jesus Messiah, be with
19
you all: Amen.

19
Romans 16:27 - In the Greek, the 27th verse is
placed between verse 23 and 24.
The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
1:1 Paul, called and sent by Jesus Messiah in
the good pleasure of God; and Sosthenes, a
brother;
2 19
to the church of God which is at Corinth, to the
[people] called and sanctified, who are sanctified
in Jesus Messiah; and to all them, in every
place, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus
Messiah, their and our [Lord]:
3
Grace [be] with you, and peace; from God our
Father, and from our Lord Jesus Messiah.
4 21
I thank my God at all times on your behalf, for
the grace of God which is given to you in Jesus
Messiah;
5
that in every thing ye are enriched by him, in
all discourse, and in all knowledge;
6
even as the testimony of Messiah was
confirmed among you:
7
so that ye are not inferior in any one of his
gifts; but are waiting for the manifestation of our
Lord Jesus Messiah:
8
who will confirm you unto the end, so that ye
may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus
Messiah.
9
God is faithful; by whom ye have been called
into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Messiah,
our Lord.
10
And I beseech you, my Brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, that to you all
there may be one language; and that there may
be no divisions among you: but that ye may
become perfectly of one mind, and of one way of
thinking.
11
For concerning you, my Brethren, it hath
been reported to me by the house of Chloe, that
there are contentions among you.
12
And this I state: That one of you saith, I am of
Paul; and another saith, I am of Apollos; and
another saith, I am of Cephas; and another
saith, I am of Messiah.
13
Now was Messiah divided? Or was Paul
crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the
name of Paul?
14
I thank my God that I baptized none of you,
except Crispus and Gaius;
15
lest any one should say, that I baptized in my
own name.
16
I moreover baptized the household of
Stephanas: but further, I know not that I baptized
any other.
17
For Messiah did not send me to baptize, but
to preach; not with wisdom of words, lest the
cross of Messiah should be inefficient.
18
For a discourse concerning the cross is, to
them who perish, foolishness; but to us who live,
it is the energy of God.
For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise; and I will dissipate the intelligence of
the sagacious.
20
Where is the wise? Or where is the scribe?
Or where is the disputant of this world? Lo, hath
not God showed, that the wisdom of this world is
folly?
For in the wisdom of God, because the world
by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, by the
foolishness of preaching, to quicken them who
believe.
22
Because the Jews ask for signs, and the
Gentiles demand wisdom.
23
But we preach Messiah as crucified; [which
is] a stumbling-block to the Jews, and
foolishness to the Gentiles;
24
but to them who are called, both Jews and
Gentiles, Messiah is the energy of God, and the
wisdom of God.
25
Because the foolishness of God, is wiser than
men; and the feebleness of God, is stronger
than men.
26
For look also at your calling, my Brethren;
that not many among you are wise, according to
the flesh; and not many among you are mighty,
and not many among you are of high birth.
27
But God hath chosen the foolish ones of the
world, to shame the wise; and he hath chosen
the feeble ones of the world, to shame the
mighty;
28
and he hath chosen those of humble birth in
the world, and the despised, and them who are
nothing, to bring to naught them who are
something:
29
so that no flesh might glory before him.
30
And ye, moreover, are of him in Jesus
Messiah; who hath become to us wisdom from
God, and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption:
31
according to that which is written: He that
glorieth, let him glory in the LORD.
2:1 And I, my Brethren, when I came to you, did
not preach to you the mystery of God in
magnificent speech, nor in wisdom.
2
And I did not govern myself among you, as if I
knew any thing, except only Jesus Messiah; and
him also as crucified.
3
And in much fear and much trembling, was I
with you.
4 4
And my speech and my preaching were not
with the persuasiveness of the discourses of
wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit,
and with power:
5
that your faith might not arise from the wisdom
of men, but from the power of God.
6
Yet we do speak wisdom, among the perfect;
the wisdom not of this world, nor of the
potentates of this world, who will come to
naught.
7 8
But we speak the wisdom of God, in a
mystery; the wisdom which was hidden, and
which God predetermined before the world was,
for our glory:
8
which no one of the potentates of this world
knew; for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory.
9
But, as it is written: The eye hath not seen, nor
hath the ear heard, nor hath it entered into the
heart of man, that which God hath prepared for
those who love him.
10
But God hath revealed it to us, by his Spirit;
for the Spirit exploreth all things, even the
profound things of God.
11
For what man is there, who knoweth that
which is in a man, except it be the spirit of the
man, which is in him? So also, that which is in
God, no one knoweth, except the Spirit of God.
12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is from God; that we
might know the free gifts, which are given to us
by God.
13
Which things we also speak; not in the
teaching of the words of man's wisdom, but in
the teaching of the spirit; and we compare
spirituals with spirituals.
14
For a man in his natural self, receiveth not
spirituals; for they are foolishness to him.
Neither can he know them; for they are
discerned by the Spirit.
15
But he that is spiritual, judgeth of all things:
and he is judged of by no one.
16
For who hath known the mind of the LORD,
that he should instruct him? But we have the
mind of Messiah.
3:1 And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you,
as with spiritual [persons], but as with the carnal,
as with babes in Messiah.
2 22
I gave you milk, and did not give you solid
food: for ye were not then able to receive it; and
even now, ye are not able.
3 23
For ye are still in the flesh. For, as there are
among you envying, and contention, and parties,
are ye not carnal, and walking in the flesh?
For, while one of you saith, I am of Paul; and
another saith, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5
For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the
ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the
LORD gave to him?
6
I planted, and Apollos watered; but God
produced the growth.
7
Not therefore he that planted, is to be
accounted of, nor he that watered, but God who
produced the growth.
And he that planted, and he that watered are
on a par; each receiveth his reward, according
to his labor.
9
For we labor with God: and ye are God's
husbandry, and God's edifice.
10
According to the grace of God which was
given me, I laid the foundation like a wise
architect; and another buildeth on it. But let each
one see, how he buildeth on it.
11
For any other foundation can no man lay,
different from that which is laid, which is Jesus
Messiah.
12
And if any one buildeth on this foundation,
either gold, or silver, or precious stones, or
wood, or hay, or stubble;
13
the work of each will be exposed to view; for
the day will expose it; because it is to be tested
by fire; and the fire will disclose the work of
each, of what sort it is.
14
And that builder whose work shall endure, will
receive his reward.
15
And he, whose work shall burn up, will suffer
loss; yet himself will escape; but it will be, as
from the fire.
16
Know ye not, that ye are the temple of God?
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17
Whoever shall mar the temple of God, God
will mar him: for the temple of God is holy, which
[temple] ye are.
18
Let no one deceive himself. Whoever among
you thinketh that he is wise in this world, let him
become a fool, that he may be wise.
19
For the wisdom of this world is fatuity with
God: for it is written, He catcheth the wise in
their own craftiness.
20
And again: The LORD knoweth the devices of
the wise, that they are vain.
21
Wherefore, let no one glory in men: for all
things are yours;
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or
things to come; all things are yours:
and ye are Messiah's, and Messiah is God's.
4:1 Let us be so accounted of by you, as the
servants of Messiah, and the stewards of the
mysteries of God.
2
Now it is required of stewards, that each be
found faithful.
3
But to me, it is a light matter to be judged of by
you, or by any man whatever; nay, I am no
judge of myself.
4
(For I am not conscious in myself of any thing
[flagrant]; yet I am not by this justified; for the
LORD is my judge.)
5
Therefore pronounce not judgments before the
time, [or] until the LORD come, who will pour light
upon the hidden things of darkness, and will
make manifest the thoughts of [men's] hearts:
and then will each one have [due] praise from
God.
6
These things, my Brethren, I have stated
concerning the person of myself and of Apollos,
for your sakes; that, in us, ye might learn not to
think [of men], above what is written; and that no
one might exalt himself in comparison with his
fellow, on account of any person.
7
For who exploreth thee? Or what hast thou,
which thou didst not receive? And if thou
receivedst it, why gloriest thou, as if thou didst
not receive it?
8
Now ye are yourselves full, and enriched; and,
without us, are on thrones! And I wish ye were
enthroned; that we also might reign with you.
9
But I suppose, that God hath placed us
legates the last, as for death; since we have
become a spectacle to the world, to angels and
to men.
10
We are fools, on account of Messiah; but ye
are wise in Messiah! We are feeble; but ye are
strong! Ye are lauded, we are contemned.
11
Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted, and have no
permanent home:
12
and we toil, working with our own hands: they
defame us, and we bless: they persecute us,
and we endure it:
13
they revile us, and we entreat them: we are
as the filth of the world, and the expiation for all
men, up to this time.
14
I write these things, not to shame you; but I
instruct you, as dear children.
15
For though ye have a myriad of teachers in
Messiah, yet not many fathers; for in Jesus
Messiah, I have begotten you by preaching.
16
I beseech you, therefore, that ye be like me.
17
For this cause have I sent to you Timothy,
who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD,
that he might bring to your recollection my ways
in Messiah, agreeably to what I teach in all the
churches.
18
Now some of you are inflated, as though I
would not [dare] come to you.
19
But I will come to you speedily, if G OD be
willing: and I will know, not the speech of them
who exalt themselves, but their power:
20
for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power.
21
What will ye? Shall I come to you with the
rod, or with love and a gentle spirit?
5:1 In short, it is reported, there is whoredom
among you; and such whoredom as is not even
named among the heathen, that a son should
even take the wife of his father.
2
And ye are inflated, and have not rather sitten
down in grief, that he who hath done this deed
might be separated from you.
3
And I, while distant from you in body but
present with you in spirit, have already, as if
present, judged him who perpetrateth this deed;
4
that ye all assemble together, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Messiah, and I with you in spirit,
together with the energy of our Lord Jesus
Messiah;
5
and that ye deliver him over to Satan, for the
destruction of the flesh, that in spirit he may
have life, in the day of our Lord Jesus Messiah.
6
Your glorying is not praiseworthy. Know ye
not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole
mass?
7
Purge out from you the old leaven, that ye
may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For
our passover is the Messiah, who was slain for
us.
8
Therefore let us celebrate the festival, not with
the old leaven, nor with the leaven of
wickedness and bitterness, but with the leaven
of purity and sanctity.
9
I wrote to you by letter, not to commingle with
whoremongers.
10
But I say not, with the whoremongers who are
in the world, nor [speak I] of the avaricious, or of
the rapacious, or of the idol-worshippers,
otherwise ye would be obliged to go out of the
world.
11
But this is what I wrote to you, that ye
commingle not, if any one is called a brother,
and is a whoremonger, or avaricious, or an idol-
worshipper, or a railer, or a drunkard, or
rapacious, with him who is such, not even to eat
bread.
12
For what business have I to judge them who
are without? But those within the body, judge ye,
13
and those without, God judgeth; and remove
ye the wickedness from among you.
6:1 Dare any of you, when he hath a
controversy with his brother, litigate before the
iniquitous, and not before the sanctified?
2
Or know ye not, that the sanctified will judge
the world? And if the world will be judged by
you, are ye unfit to decide trivial causes?
3
Know ye not, that we shall judge angels? How
much more things that are of the world?
4
But if ye have a controversy about a worldly
matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who
are contemned in the church!
5
For shame to you I say [it]. So, there is not
even one wise man among you, who is
competent to do equity between a brother and
his brother:
6 3
but a brother litigateth with his brother, and
also before them that believe not!
7
Now therefore ye condemn yourselves, in that
ye have litigation one with another. For why do
ye not rather suffer wrong? why not rather be
defrauded?
8 5
But ye yourselves commit wrong, and ye
defraud even your brethren.
9
Or do ye not know, that the unrighteous will
not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not mistake;
neither whoremongers, nor idol-worshippers, nor
adulterers, nor debauchers, nor liers with males,
10
nor the avaricious, nor thieves, nor
drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, will
inherit the kingdom of God.
11
And these things have been in some of you:
but ye are washed, and are sanctified, and
made righteous, in the name of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, and by the Spirit of our God.
12
Every thing is in my power: but every thing is
not profitable to me. Every thing is in my power;
but none [of them] shall have dominion over me.
13
Food is for the belly; and the belly is for food;
but God will bring them both to naught. But the
body is not for whoredom, but for our Lord; and
our Lord for the body.
14
And God hath raised up our Lord; and he will
raise us up, by his power.
15
Know ye not, that your bodies are the
members of the Messiah? Shall one take a
member of the Messiah, and make it the
member of a harlot? Far be it.
16
Or know ye not, that whoever joineth himself
to a harlot, is one body [with her]? For it is said,
They twain shall be one body.
17
But he that joineth himself to our Lord, is with
him one spirit.
18
Flee whoredom. For every [other] sin which a
man committeth, is external to his body; but he
that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his
own body.
19
Or know ye not, that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit who abideth in you, whom ye
have received from God? And ye are not your
own.
20
For ye are bought with a price. Therefore,
glorify ye God, with your body, and with your
spirit, which are God's.
7:1 And concerning the things of which ye wrote
to me, it is praiseworthy for a man not to
approach a woman.
2
But, on account of whoredom, let each have
his own wife and let a woman have her own
husband.
And let the man render to his wife the
kindness which is due; and so also the woman
to her husband.
4
The woman is not the sovereign over her
body, but her husband: so also the man is not
the sovereign over his body, but the wife.
Therefore, deprive not one another, except
when ye both consent, at the time ye devote
yourselves to fasting and prayer; and return
again to the same disposition, that Satan tempt
you not because of the concupiscence of your
body.
6
But this I say, as to weak persons, not of
positive precept.
7
For I would that all men might be like me in
purity. But every man is endowed with his gift of
God; one thus, and another so.
8
And I say to them who have no wives, and to
widows, that it is advantageous to them to
remain as I am.
9
But if they cannot endure [it], let them marry:
for it is more profitable to take a wife, than to
burn with concupiscence.
10
And on them who have wives, I enjoin,—not I,
but my Lord,—that the woman separate not from
her husband.
11
And if she separate, let her remain without a
husband, or be reconciled to her husband; and
let not the man put away his wife.
12
And to the rest, say I,— I, not my Lord,—that
if there be a brother, who hath a wife that
believeth not, and she is disposed to dwell with
him, let him not put her away.
13
And that woman, who hath a husband that
believeth not, and he is disposed to dwell with
her let her not forsake her husband.
14
For the husband who believeth not, is
sanctified by the wife that believeth; and the wife

who believeth not, is sanctified by the husband
that believeth: otherwise their children would be
impure; but now are they pure.
15
But if the unbeliever separateth, let him
separate: A brother or sister is not in bondage in
such cases: it is to peace, God hath called us.
16
For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou
wilt procure life to thy husband? Or, thou
husband, knowest thou, whether thou wilt
procure life to thy wife?
17
Every one, however, as the LORD hath
distributed to him, and every one as God hath
called him, so let him walk. And also thus I
enjoin upon all the churches.
18
Is a circumcised person called, let him not
revert to uncircumcision: and if one
uncircumcised be called, let him not become
circumcised.
19
For circumcision is nothing, neither is
uncircumcision; but the keeping of God's
commands.
20
Let every one continue in the vocation, in
which he was called.
21
If thou wert called, being a servant; let it not
trouble thee. But if thou canst be made free,
choose it rather than to serve.
22
For he that is called by our Lord, being a
servant, is God's freedman: likewise, he that is
called, being a free man, is the Messiah's
servant.
23
Ye are bought with a price; become not the
servants of men.
24
Let every one, my Brethren, continue with
God, in whatever [state] he was called.
25
And concerning virginity, I have no precept
from God; but I give counsels as a man who
hath obtained mercy from God to be a believer.
26
And I think this is suitable, on account of the
necessity of the times; it is advantageous for a
man to remain as he is.
27
Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not a release.
Art thou free from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28
But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not. And
if a maiden is given to a husband, she sinneth
not. But they who are such, will have trouble in
the body: but I am forbearing to you.
29
And this I say, my Brethren, that the time to
come is short; so that they who have wives,
should be as if they had none;
30
and they who weep, as if they wept not; and
they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and
they who buy, as if they acquired not;
31
and those occupied with this world, not going
beyond the just using: for the fashion of this
world is passing away.
32
And therefore I wish you to be without
solicitude. For he who hath not a wife,
considereth the thing of his Lord, how he may
please his Lord.
33
And he who hath a wife, is anxious about the
world, how he may please his wife.
34
There is a difference also between a wife and
a maiden. She who is without a husband,
thinketh of things pertaining to her Lord, that she
may be holy in her body and in her spirit. But
she who hath a husband, thinketh of things
pertaining to the world, how she may please her
husband.
35
And this I say for your advantage; I am not
laying a snare for you; but that ye may be faithful
towards your Lord, in a suitable manner, while
not minding worldly things.
36
But if any one thinketh that there is reproach,
on account of his maiden [daughter], because
she hath passed her time, and he hath not
presented her to a husband, [and] it be fitting
that he present her; let him do what he desireth,
he sinneth not; let her be married.
37
But he who hath firmly determined in his own
mind, and nothing compelleth him, and he can
act his own pleasure, and he so judgeth in his
heart, that he keep his maiden [daughter], he
doeth commendably.
38
And therefore, he who presenteth his maiden
[daughter], doeth commendably; and he who
presenteth not his maiden [daughter], doeth very
commendably.
39
A woman, while her husband liveth, is bound
by the law; but if her husband sleepeth [in
death], she is free to marry whom she pleaseth,
[yet] only in the Lord.
40
But she is happier, in my opinion, if she
remain so: and I think also, that I have the Spirit
of God.
8:1 And concerning sacrifices to idols, we know,
that in all of us there is knowledge; and
knowledge inflateth, but love edifieth.
2
And if any one thinketh that he knoweth any
thing he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to
know [it].
3
But if any one loveth God, that man is known
of him.
4
As to the eating of the sacrifices of idols,
therefore, we know that an idol is nothing in the
world; and that there is no other God, but one.
5
For although there are what are called gods,
whether in heaven, or on earth, (as there are
gods many, and lords many,)
6
yet to us, on our part, there is one God, the
Father, from whom are all things, and we in him;

and one LORD, Jesus the Messiah, by whom are
all things, and we also by him.
7
But there is not [this] knowledge in every man;
for there are some, who, to the present time, in
their conscience, eat [it] as an offering to idols;
and because their conscience is weak, it is
defiled.
8
But food doth not bring us near to God; for if
we eat, we do not abound; and if we eat not, we
are not in want.
9
See to it, however, lest this your authority
become a stumbling-block to the weak.
10
For if one should see thee in whom there is
knowledge, reclining in the temple of idols, will
not his conscience, seeing he is a weak person,
be encouraged to eat what is sacrificed?
11
And by thy knowledge, he who is feeble, and
on account of whom the Messiah died, will
perish.
12
And if ye thus sin against your brethren, and
wound the consciences of the feeble, ye sin
against the Messiah.
13
Wherefore, if food is a stumbling-block to my
brother, I will for ever eat no flesh, lest I should
be a stumbling-block to my brother.
9:1 Am I not a free man? Or, am I not a legate?
Or, have I not seen Jesus Messiah our Lord?
Or, have ye not been my work in my Lord?
2
And if I have not been a legate to others, yet I
have been so to you; and ye are the seal of my
legateship.
3
And [my] apology to my judgers, is this:
4
Have we not authority, to eat and to drink?
5
Or have we not authority to carry about with us
a sister as a wife; just as the other legates, and
the brothers of our Lord, and as Cephas?
6
Or I only, and Barnabas, have we no right to
forbear labor?
7
Who, that serveth in war, [doth so] at his own
expense? Or who, that planteth a vineyard,
eateth not of its fruits? Or who, that tendeth
sheep, eateth not of the milk of his flocks?
8 25
Is it as a man, I say these things? Behold, the
law also saith them.
9
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt
not muzzle the ox that thresheth. Hath God
regard for oxen?
10
But manifest it is, for whose sake he said it.
And indeed, for our sakes it was written:
because the plougher ought to plough in hope,
and the thresher in hope of fruit.
11
If we have sowed among you the things of
the Spirit, is it a great matter, if we reap from you
the things of the body?
12
And if others have this prerogative over you,
doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have
not used this prerogative; but we have endured
every thing, that we might in nothing impede the
announcement of the Messiah.
13
Know ye not, that they who serve in a temple,
are fed from the temple? And they who serve at
the altar, participate with the altar?
14
Thus also hath our Lord commanded, that
they who proclaim his gospel, should live by his
gospel.
15
But I have used none of these things: and I
write not, that it may be so done to me; for it
would be better for me to actually die, than that
any one should make void my glorying.
16
For while I preach, I have no [ground of]
glorying; because necessity is laid upon me, and
woe to me, if I preach not.
17
For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for
me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted
to me.
18
What then is my reward? [It is,] that when I
preach, I make the announcement of the
Messiah without cost, and use not the
prerogative given me in the gospel.
19
Being free from them all, I have made myself
servant to every man; that I might gain many:
20
and with the Jews, I was as a Jew, that I
might gain the Jews; and with those under the
law, I was as under the law, that I might gain
them who are under the law;
21
and to those who have not the law, I was as
without the law, (although I am not without law to
God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I
might gain them that are without the law.
22
I was with the weak, as weak, that I might
gain the weak: I was all things to all men, that I
might vivify every one.
23
And this I do, that I may participate in the
announcement.
24
Know ye not that they who run in the stadium,
run all of them; yet it is one who gaineth the
victory. Run ye, so as to attain.
For every one who engageth in the contest,
restraineth his desires in every thing. And they
run, to obtain a crown that perisheth; but we,
one that perisheth not.
26
I therefore so run, not as for something
unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling
against air;
27
but I subdue my body, and reduce it to
servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I
myself should be a reprobate.

10:1 And, my Brethren, I would have you know,
that our fathers were all of them under the cloud,
and they all passed through the sea;
2
and they were all baptized by Moses, in the
cloud and in the sea;
3 24
and they all ate the same spiritual food;
4
and they all drank the same spiritual drink; for
they drank from the spiritual rock that attended
them, and that rock was the Messiah.
5 26
But with a multitude of them, God was not
pleased; for they fell in the wilderness.
6
Now these things were an example for us, that
we should not hanker after evil things as they
hankered.
7 28
Neither should we serve idols, as some of
them served; as it is written, The people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport.
8 29
Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of
them committed; and there fell in one day twenty
and three thousand.
9 30
Neither let us tempt the Messiah, as some of
them tempted; and serpents destroyed them.
10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them
murmured; and they perished by the destroyer.
11
All these things which befell them, were for
an example to us; and they are written for our
instruction, on whom the end of the world hath
come.
12
Wherefore, let him who thinketh he standeth,
beware lest he fall.
13
No trial cometh on you, but what pertaineth to
men: and God is faithful, who will not permit you
to be tried beyond your ability, but will make an
issue to your trial, that ye may be able to sustain
it.
14
Wherefore, my Beloved, flee from idolatry.
15
I speak as to the wise; judge ye what I say.
16
The cup of thanksgiving which we bless, is it
not the communion of the blood of the Messiah?
And the bread which we break, is it not the
communion of the body of the Messiah?
17
As therefore that bread is one, so we are all
one body; for we all take to ourselves from that
one bread.
18
Behold the Israel who are in the flesh; are not
they who eat the victims, participators of the
altar?
19
What then do I say? That an idol is any thing?
Or, that an idol's sacrifice is any thing? No.
20
But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would
not, that ye should be associates of demons.
21
Ye cannot drink the cup of our Lord, and the
cup of demons; and ye cannot be partakers at
the table of our Lord, and at the table of
demons.
22
Or, would we sedulously provoke our Lord's
jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23
Every thing is in my power; but every thing is
not profitable. Every thing is in my power; but
every thing doth not edify.
Let no one seek his own things, but also the
things of his fellow-man.
25
Whatever is sold in the flesh-market, eat ye,
without an inquiry on account of conscience:
for the earth is the LORD's, in its fullness.
27
And if one of the Gentiles invite you, and ye
are disposed to go, eat ye whatever is set before
you, without an inquiry on account of
conscience.
But if any one shall say to you, This
pertaineth to a sacrifice; eat not, for the sake of
him who told you, and for conscience's sake.
The conscience I speak of, is not your own,
but his who told you. But why is my liberty
judged of, by the conscience of others?
If I by grace partake, why am I reproached for
that, for which I give thanks?
31
If therefore ye eat, or if ye drink, or if ye do
any thing, do all things for the glory of God.
32
Be ye without offence to the Jews, and to the
Gentiles, and to the church of God:
33
even as I also, in every thing, please every
man; and do not seek what is profitable to me,
but what is profitable to many; that they may
live.
11:1 Be ye imitators of me, as I am of the
Messiah.
2
Moreover I commend you, my Brethren, that in
all things ye are mindful of me, and that ye hold
fast the precepts as I delivered them to you.
3
And I would have you know, that the head of
every man is the Messiah, and the head of the
woman is the man, and the head of the Messiah
is God.
4
Every man, who prayeth or prophesieth with
his head covered, dishonoreth his head.
5
And every woman, who prayeth or prophesieth
with her head uncovered, dishonoreth her head;
for she is on a level with her whose head is
shaven.
6
For if a woman be not covered, let her also be
shorn; but if it be shameful for a woman to be
shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7
The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head,
because he is the likeness and glory of God: but
the woman is the glory of the man.
8
For the man was not from the woman, but the
woman from the man.
9
Neither was the man created for the woman's
sake, but the woman for the man's sake.
10
For this cause ought the woman to have on
her head [the mark of] authority, because of the
angels.
11
Nevertheless, the man is not without the
woman, nor the woman without the man, in our
Lord.
12
For as the woman [was] from the man, so the
man is by the woman; and every thing is from
God.
13
Judge for yourselves, among yourselves; is it
becoming, that a woman pray to God with her
head uncovered?
14
Doth not nature teach you, that in a man, if
his hair groweth long, it is a reproach to him?
15
But for a woman, if her hair is abundant, it is
a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a
covering.
16
But if any one is contentious about these
things, we on our part have no such custom, nor
hath the church of God.
17
This which I now enjoin, is not as praising
you; for ye have not made progress, but have
deteriorated.
18
Because, first; when ye assemble in the
church, there are, I hear, divisions among you;
and I partly believe it.
19
For there are to be contentions among you,
that the approved among you may be known.
20
When therefore ye come together, ye eat and
drink, not as is becoming on the day of our Lord.
21
But, one and another proceedeth to eat his
own supper; and one is hungry, and another is
drunken.
22
What! have ye no houses in which ye can eat
and drink? Or, despise ye the church of God,
and shame them who have nothing? What shall
I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise
you not.
23
For I have received from our Lord, that which
I imparted to you; that our Lord Jesus, on the
night he was betrayed, took bread,
24
and blessed, and brake [it], and said: "Take,
eat; this is my body, which is broken for your
sakes: thus do ye, in remembrance of me."
25
So, after they had supped, he gave also the
cup, and said: "This cup is the new testament in
my blood: thus do ye, as often as ye drink [it], in
remembrance of me."
26
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink
this cup, ye commemorate the death of our Lord,
until his advent.
27
He therefore, who eateth of the bread of the
LORD, and drinketh of his cup, and is not worthy
of it, is guilty of the blood of the LORD, and of his
body.
28
For this reason, a man should examine
himself, and then eat of this bread, and drink of
this cup:
29
for, whoever eateth and drinketh of it, while
he is unworthy, eateth and drinketh
condemnation on himself, by not discerning the
body of the LORD.
30
For this cause, many among you are
diseased and sickly, and many sleep.
31
For if we would judge ourselves, we should
not be judged.
32
But when we are judged by our Lord, we are
really chastised, that we may not be condemned
with the world.
33
Wherefore, my Brethren, when ye assemble
to eat, wait ye one for another.
34
And let him who is hungry, eat at home; that
ye may assemble, not for condemnation. And as
to other things, I will give you directions when I
come.
12:1 And concerning spirituals, my brethren, I
would have you know,
2
that ye have been pagans; and have been,
without distinction, led away after idols, in which
there is no speech.
3
I therefore inform you, that there is no man,
that speaketh by the Spirit of God, who saith that
Jesus is accursed: neither can a man say that
Jesus is the LORD, except by the Holy Spirit.
4
Now there are diversities of gifts; but the Spirit
is one.
5
And there are diversities of ministrations; but
the LORD is one.
6
And there are diversities of energies; but God,
who worketh all in all men, is one.
7
And to each man, there is given a
manifestation of the Spirit, that it may aid him.
8
To one, by the Spirit, there is given a word of
wisdom; and to another, by the same Spirit,
there is given a word of knowledge:
9
to another, by the same Spirit, faith: to
another, by the same Spirit, gifts of healing:
10
and to another, miracles: and to another,
prophecy: and to another, the discerning of
spirits: and to another, [divers] kinds of tongues:
and to another, the interpretation of tongues.
11
But all these, worketh that one Spirit; and he
distributeth to every one as he pleaseth.
12
For as the body is one, and in it are many
members; and all those members of the body,
though many, are one body; so also is the
Messiah.
13
For all of us, likewise, by one Spirit, have
been baptized into one body, whether Jews or
Gentiles, whether slaves or free; and all of us
have drinked in one Spirit.
14
For a body also, is not one member, but
many.
15
For if the foot should say, Because I am not
the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on that
account, not of the body?
16
Or if the ear should say, Because I am not
the eye, I am not of the body; is it, on that
account, not of the body?
17
And if the whole body were an eye, where
would be the hearing? Or if it were all hearing,
where would be the smelling?
18
But now hath God placed every one of the
members in the body, according to his pleasure.
19
And if they were all one member, where
would be the body?
20
But now they are many members, yet but one
body.
21
The eye cannot say to the hand, Thou art not
needful to me: nor can the head say to the feet,
Ye are not needful to me.
22
But rather, those members which are
accounted feeble, are indispensable.
23
And those which we think dishonorable in the
body, on them we heap more honor; and those
that are uncomely, on them we put the more
decoration.
24
For the honorable members in us, have no
need of honor: for God hath tempered the body,
and given more honor to the member which is
inferior;
25
that there might be no disunion in the body,
but that all the members, equally, might care for
one another;
26
so that, when one member is in pain, they will
all sympathize; and if one member is exalted, all
the members will be exalted.
27
Now ye are the body of Messiah, and
members in your place.
28
For God hath placed in his church, first,
legates; after them, prophets; after them,
teachers; after them, workers of miracles; after
them, the gifts of healing, and helpers, and
leaders, and [various] kinds of tongues.
29
Are they all legates? Are they all prophets?
Are they all teachers? Are they all workers of
miracles?
30
Have all of them the gifts of healing? Do they
all speak with tongues? Or do they all interpret?
31
And if ye are emulous of the superior gifts, on
the other hand, I show to you a better way.
13:1 If I could speak in every tongue of men,
and in that of angels, and there should be no
love in me, I should be like brass that
resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise.
2
And if there should be in me [the gift of]
prophecy, and I should understand all the
mysteries, and every science; and if there
should be in me all faith, so that I could move
mountains, and love should not be in me, I
should be nothing.
3
And if I should feed out to the destitute all I
possess; and if I should give my body to be
burned; and there should be no love in me, I
gain nothing.
4
Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not
envious; love is not boisterous; and is not
inflated;
5
and doth nothing that causeth shame; and
seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and
thinketh no evil;
6
rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the
truth;
7
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
all, and endureth all.
8
Love will never cease. But prophesyings will
end; and tongues will be silent; and knowledge
will vanish.
9
For we know but partially; and we prophesy
but partially.
10
But when completeness shall come, then that
which is partial will vanish away.
11
When I was a child, I talked as a child, and I
reasoned as a child, and I thought as a child: but
when I became a man, I laid aside the things of
childhood.
12
And now we see, as by a mirror, in similitude;
but then face to face: now I know partially; but
then shall I know, just as I am known.
13
For these three things are abiding, faith, and
hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
14:1 Follow after love; and be emulous of the
gifts of the Spirit, and especially, that ye may
prophesy.
2
For he that speaketh in a tongue, speaketh not
unto men, but unto God; for no one
understandeth what is said; yet in the spirit, he
speaketh a mystery.
3
But he that prophesieth, speaketh unto men,
for edification, and exhortation, and consolation.
4
He that speaketh in a tongue, edifieth himself:
and he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.
5
Now I would that ye all spoke with tongues,
but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he
that prophesieth, than he that speaketh in a
tongue, unless he interpret; and if he interpret,
he edifieth the church.
6 23
And now, my brethren, if I should come among
you, and speak to you in tongues, what should I
profit you; unless I should speak to you either by
revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or
by doctrine?
7
For even inanimate things that emit sound,
whether pipe or harp, if they make no distinction
between one sound and another, how will it be
known, what is sung or what is harped?
8
And if the trumpet shall give an uncertain
sound, who will prepare himself for the battle?
9 26
So likewise if ye utter a discourse in a tongue,
and there is no interpretation given, how will it
be known what ye have said? Ye will have been
as if ye spoke into the air.
10
For lo, there are many kinds of tongues in the
world; and there is not one of them without
meaning.
11
But if I do not know the import of the sound, I
shall be a barbarian to him that speaketh, and
the speaker will be a barbarian to me.
12
So also ye, since ye are emulous of the gifts
of the Spirit for the edification of the church,
seek ye to excel.
13
And let him that speaketh in a tongue, pray
that he may interpret.
14
For if I should pray in a tongue, my spirit
prayeth, but my understanding is without fruits.
15
What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit,
and will pray with my understanding; and I will
sing with my spirit, and will sing with my
understanding.
16
Otherwise, if thou blessest in the spirit, how
shall he that filleth the place of one unlearned,
say Amen, on thy giving thanks; for he knoweth
not what thou sayest?
17
Thou blessest, indeed, very well; but thy
neighbor is not edified.
18
I thank God, that I speak with tongues more
than all of you.
19
But in the church, I would rather speak five
words with my understanding, that I might
instruct others, than a myriad of words in a
tongue.
20
My brethren, be ye not children in your
thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in
your thoughts be men.
21
In the law it is written, With a foreign speech,
and in another tongue, will I speak with this
people; and even so also they will not hearken
to me, saith the LORD.
22
Wherefore, tongues are established for a
sign, not to the believers, but to them that
believe not. But prophesyings are not for those
who believe not, but for them that believe.
If therefore the whole church assemble, and
they all speak with tongues, and there come in
unlearned persons, or such as believe not, will
they not say: These people are crazy?
24
But if ye should be all prophesying, and one
unlearned or an unbeliever should come among
you, he is explored by you all, and rebuked by
you all;
25
and the secrets of his heart are laid open [to
him]: and so he will fall upon his face, and will
worship God, and say: Verily, God is in you.
I therefore say [to you] my brethren, that
when ye assemble, whoever of you hath a
psalm, let him speak; and whoever hath a
doctrine, and whoever hath a revelation, and
whoever hath a tongue, and whoever hath an
interpretation. Let them all be for edification.
27
And if any speak in a tongue, let two speak or
at most, three; and let them speak one by one;
and let [some] one interpret.
28
And if there is none to interpret, let him that
speaketh in a tongue, be silent in the church;
and let him speak to himself and to God.
29
And as to prophets, let two or three speak,
and let the rest judge.
30
And if to another sitting by, there should be a
revelation, let the first stop speaking.
31
For ye can all prophesy, one by one; so that
every one may learn, and every one be
comforted.
32
For the spirit of the prophets is subject to the
prophets.
33
Because, God is not [the author] of tumult,
but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34
Let your women be silent in the church: for it
is not permitted them to speak, but to be in
subjection, as also the law saith.
35
And if they wish to be informed on any
subject, let them ask their husbands at home: for
it is unbecoming for women to speak in the
church.
36
What! was it from you that the word of God
came forth? Or did it reach only to you?
37
And if any one among you thinketh that he is
a prophet, or that he is spiritual, let him
recognize the things which I write to you, as
being the precepts of our Lord.
38
But if any one be ignorant, let him be
ignorant.
39
Wherefore, my brethren, be emulous of
prophesying: and to speak with tongues, prohibit
not.
40
But let every thing be done with decency and
regularity.

15:1 And I make known to you, my brethren, the
gospel which I preached to you, and which ye
received, and in which ye stand,
2
and by which ye have life. In what terms I
preached to you, ye remember; unless ye have
believed in vain.
3
For I delivered to you from the first, as I had
received it; that the Messiah died on account of
our sins, as it is written:
4 25
and that he was buried and arose on the third
day, as it is written:
5 26
and that he was seen by Cephas; and after
him, by the twelve:
6
and after that, he was seen by more than five
hundred brethren at once; many of whom
survive at the present time, and some of them
sleep.
7
And subsequently to this, he was seen by
James; and after him, by all the legates.
8 29
And last of them all, he was seen by me, as it
were by an abortion.
9
I am the least of the legates; and am not
worthy to be called a legate; because I
persecuted the church of God.
10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and
his grace, that was in me, was not in vain; but I
labored more than they all:—not I, but his grace
that was with me.
11
Whether I, therefore, or whether they, so we
preached; and so ye believed.
12
And if the Messiah is proclaimed, as rising
from the dead; how is it that there are some
among you, who say, There is no reviviscence
of the dead?
13
And if there is no reviviscence of the dead,
the Messiah also hath not risen.
14
And if the Messiah hath not risen, our
preaching is vain, and your faith also vain.
15
And we too are found false witnesses of God;
for we have testified concerning God, that he
raised up the Messiah, when he did not raise
him up.
16
For, if the dead will not arise, the Messiah
also hath not risen.
17
And if the Messiah rose not, your faith is
inane; and ye are yet in your sins:
18
and also, doubtless, they who have fallen
asleep in the Messiah, have perished.
19
And if, in this life only, we have hope in the
Messiah, we are the most miserable of all men.
20
But now the Messiah hath risen from the
dead, and become the first-fruits of them that
slept.
21
And as by a man came death, so also by a
man came the reviviscence of the dead.
22
For as it was by Adam, that all men die, so
also by the Messiah they all live:
23
every one in his order; the Messiah was the
first-fruits; afterwards, they that are the
Messiah's, at his coming.
24
And then will be the end, when he shall have
delivered up the kingdom to God the Father;
when every prince, and every sovereign, and all
powers shall have come to naught.
For he is to reign, until he shall put all his
enemies under his feet.
And the last enemy, death, will be abolished.
27
For he hath subjected all under his feet. But
when he said, that every thing is subjected to
him, it is manifest that he is excepted, who
subjected all to him.
28
And when all shall be subjected to him, then
the Son himself will be subject to him who
subjected all to him, so that God will be all in all.
Otherwise, what shall they do who are
baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not? Why
are they baptized for the dead?
30
And why also do we stand every hour in
peril?
31
I protest, my brethren, by your exultation,
which is mine in our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
that I die daily.
32
If, as amongst men, I was cast to wild beasts
at Ephesus, what did it profit me, if the dead rise
not? "Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we
die."
33
Be not deceived; "Evil stories corrupt well-
disposed minds."
34
Let your hearts be righteously excited, and
sin not: for there are some, in whom is not the
love of God: it is to your shame, I say it.
35
But some one of you may say: How will the
dead arise? and with what body will they come
forth?
36
Foolish man! The seed which thou sowest, is
not quickened, unless it die.
37
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not
the body that is to be, but the naked kernel of
wheat or barley, or of the other grains:
38
and God giveth it a body, as he pleaseth; and
to each of the grains its natural body.
39
And every body is not alike; for the body of a
man is one thing, and that of a beast is another,
and that of a bird is another, and that of a fish is
another.
40
And there are bodies celestial, and bodies
terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial [bodies]
is one, and that of the terrestrial is another.
41
And the glory of the sun is one thing, and the
glory of the moon is another, and the glory of the
stars is another; and one star exceedeth another
star in glory.
42
So also in the reviviscence of the dead. They
are sown in corruption, they arise without
corruption:
43
they are sown in dishonor, they arise in glory:
they are sown in weakness, they arise in power:
44
it is sown an animal body, it ariseth a spiritual
body. For there is a body of the animal life, and
there is a body of the spirit.
45
So also is it written: "Adam, the first man,
became a living soul;" the second Adam
[became] a quickening spirit.
46
And the spiritual was not first; but the animal,
and then the spiritual.
47
The first man was of dust from the earth; the
second man was the LORD from heaven.
48
As he was of the dust, so also those who are
of the dust; and as was he who was from
heaven, so also are the heavenly.
49
And as we have worn the likeness of him
from the dust, so shall we wear the likeness of
him from heaven.
50
But this I say, my brethren that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven:
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51
Lo, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed,
52
suddenly, as in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trumpet, when it shall sound; and the dead
will arise, without corruption; and we shall be
changed.
53
For this which is corruptible, is to put on
incorruption; and that which dieth, will put on
immortality.
54
And when this that is corruptible, shall put on
incorruption, and this that dieth, immortality; then
will take place the word that is written, "Death is
absorbed in victory."
55
Where is thy sting, O death? And where is thy
victory, O grave?
56
Now the sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law.
57
But thanks be to God, that giveth us the
victory, through our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
58
Wherefore, my brethren and my beloved, be
ye steadfast, and be not vacillating; but be ye at
all times abundant in the work of the LORD;
seeing ye know, that your labor is not in vain in
the LORD.
16:1 And as to the collection for the saints, as I
directed the churches of the Galatians, so do ye.
2 22
On each first day of the week, let every one of
you lay aside and preserve at home, what he is
able; that there may be no collections when I
come.
3
And when I come, those whom ye shall select,
I will send with a letter, to carry your bounty to
Jerusalem.
4
And if it should be suitable that I also go, they
shall go with me.
5
And I will come to you, when I pass from
Macedonia; for I am about to pass through
Macedonia.
6
And perhaps I shall remain with you, or winter
with you; that ye may accompany me whither I
go.
7
For I am not disposed to see you now, as I
pass along; because I hope to spend some time
with you, if my Lord permit me.
8
For I shall continue at Ephesus until
Pentecost:
9
because a great door is opened to me, which
is full of occupations; and the opposers are
numerous.
10
And if Timothy come to you, see that he may
be without fear among you; for he doeth the
work of the LORD, as I do.
11
Therefore, let no one despise him; but
conduct him on in peace, that he may come to
me; for I wait for him with the brethren.
12
As for Apollos, my brethren, I entreated him
much to go with the brethren to you; but his
inclination was not to go to you now; but when
he shall have opportunity, he will go to you.
13
Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men,
be valiant.
14
Let all your affairs be conducted with love.
15
I beseech you, my brethren, concerning the
household of Stephanas; (for ye know, that they
were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have
devoted themselves to ministering to the saints;)
16
that ye also give ear to them who are such;
and to every one, that laboreth with us and
aideth.
17
And I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and
Fortunatus and Achaicus: for they have supplied
that wherein ye were deficient towards me.
18
And they have refreshed my spirit, and yours:
therefore acknowledge ye them who are such.
19
All the churches that are in Asia, salute you.
Aquila and Priscilla, with the church in their
house, salute you much in the Lord.
20
All the brethren salute you. Salute ye one
another with a holy kiss.
21
The salutation in the handwriting of myself,
Paul.
Whoever loveth not our Lord Jesus the
Messiah, let him be accursed: our Lord cometh.
23
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be
with you.
24
And my love be with you all, in the Messiah,
Jesus. Amen.
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
1:1 Paul a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the
good pleasure of God; and Timothy a brother; to
the church of God that is at Corinth, and to all
the saints that are in all Achaia.
2
Grace be with you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, the Father of mercies, and the God
of all consolation;
4 19
who comforteth us in all our afflictions, that we
also might be able to comfort those who are in
all afflictions, with the consolation wherewith we
are comforted by God.
5 20
For, as the sufferings of the Messiah abound
in us, so also our consolation aboundeth by the
Messiah.
6 21
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your
consolation and for your life that we are afflicted;
or whether we be comforted, it is, that ye may be
comforted; and that there may be in you an
eagerness, wherewith ye may endure those
sufferings which we also suffer.
7
And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for
we know, that if ye partake of the sufferings, ye
will also partake of the consolation.
8
But, my brethren, we wish you to know,
respecting the affliction that was upon us in
Asia, that we were afflicted exceedingly, beyond
our strength, insomuch that our life was ready to
terminate.
9 3
And we passed a sentence of death upon
ourselves, that our confidence might not be in
ourselves, but in God, who raiseth up the dead;
10
who rescued us from imminent death: and we
hope that he will again rescue us,
11
by the aid of your prayers in our behalf; so
that his gift to us may be a favor done for the
sake of many, and many may praise him on our
account.
12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by
the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the
flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world,
and especially towards you.
13
We write no other things unto you, than those
which ye know and acknowledge. And I trust, ye
will acknowledge them to the end:
14
as ye have also partially acknowledged that
we are your rejoicing, as ye also are ours, in the
day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
15
And in this confidence, I was before disposed
to come to you, that ye might receive the grace
doubly;
16
and to pass by you into Macedonia, and
again to come to you from Macedonia, and [so]
ye would accompany me to Judaea.
17
When therefore I thus purposed, did I
purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the
things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that
there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?
18
God is the witness, that our word to you was
not Yes and No.
For the Son of God, Jesus the Messiah, who
was preached to you by us, [namely,] by me, by
Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and
No; but it was Yes in him.
For all the promises of God in him, the
Messiah, are Yes; for which cause, we through
him give [our] Amen, to the glory of God.
Now it is God who establisheth us, with you,
in the Messiah, and hath anointed us,
22
and hath sealed us, and hath given the
earnest of his Spirit in our hearts.
23
Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul,
that it was in order to spare you, that I came not
to Corinth.
24
Not that we are lords over your faith, but we
are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith ye stand.
2:1 And I determined this with myself, that I
would not again come to you in sadness.
2
For if I should make you sad, who would make
me joyful, unless he whom I had made sad?
And I wrote that very thing to you, lest when I
came, those persons whom I ought to make
joyful, should make me sad. For I have
confidence concerning you, that my joy is the joy
of you all.
4
And in much affliction, and in anguish of heart,
I wrote those things to you, with many tears; not
that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might
know the exceeding love I have for you.
5
And if one hath caused grief, he hath not
grieved me [only], but,—that the declaration may
not bear too hard on you—in a measure, all of
you.
6
And sufficient for him, is this rebuke
proceeding from many:
7
so that, on the other hand, ye ought to forgive
him and console him; lest he who is such a man,
should be swallowed up with excessive grief.
8
I therefore beseech you, that ye confirm to him
your love.
9
For it was for this also that I wrote [to you],
that I might learn by a trial, whether ye would be
obedient in every thing.
10
And whom ye forgive, I also [forgive]: for that
which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I
forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah;
11
lest Satan should overreach us; for we know
his devices.
12
Moreover, when I came to Troas in
announcing the Messiah, and a door was
opened to me by the LORD,
13
there was no quietude in my spirit, because I
found not Titus my brother: and I took leave of
them, and went into Macedonia.
14
But thanks be to God, who always procureth
us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifesteth by
us the odor of the knowledge of him in every
place.
15
For, through the Messiah, we are unto God a
sweet odor, in them that live and in them that
perish:
16
to these, an odor of death unto death; and to
those, an odor of life unto life. And who is
adequate to these things!
17
For we are not like others, who dilute the
words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God,
we speak in the Messiah before God.
3:1 Do we begin again to show you who we are?
Or do we, like others, need that letters
recommendatory of us should be written to you?
Or, that ye should write recommendations of us?
2
Ye are our epistle, written on our hearts, and
known and read by every man.
3
For ye know that ye are an epistle of the
Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink,
but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables
of stone, but on the tablets of the heart of flesh.
4
And such confidence have we in the Messiah
towards God.
5
Not that we are sufficient to think any thing as
of ourselves; but our efficiency is from God:
6 5
who hath fitted us to be ministers of the new
Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit; for
the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
7 6
Now if the ministration of death was engraved
upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that
the children of Israel could not look on the face
of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face
which vanished away;
8 7
how then shall not the ministration of the Spirit
be still more glorious?
9
For if there was glory in the ministration of
condemnation, how much more shall the
ministration of justification excel in glory?
10
For that which was glorious, was as if not
glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth
in glory.
11
For if that which is abolished was glorious,
much more must that which abideth be glorious.
12
Seeing therefore we have this hope, we the
more speak with boldness;
13
and are not like Moses, who threw a vail over
his face, that the children of Israel might not
behold the termination of that which was
abolished.
14
But they were blinded in their understanding;
for until this day, when the old Testament is
read, the same vail resteth upon them; nor is it
manifest [to them], that it is abolished by the
Messiah.
15
And unto this day, when Moses is read, a vail
is thrown upon their hearts.
16
But when any of them is turned unto the
LORD, the vail is taken from him.
17
Now the LORD himself is the Spirit. And where
the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom.
18
And we all, with uncovered faces, behold as
in a mirror the glory of the LORD; and are
transformed into the same likeness, from glory
to glory, as by the LORD the Spirit.
4:1 Therefore, we are not weary in this ministry
which we have received, according to the
mercies that have been upon us:
2
But we have renounced the concealments of
dishonor, and we walk not in craftiness, nor do
we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the
manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves
to all the consciences of men before God.
3
And if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed to them
that perish;
4
to them whose minds the God of this world
hath blinded, in order that they might not
believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of
the Messiah (who is the likeness of God) should
dawn upon them.
For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the
Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves,
that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.
Because God, who commanded the light to
arise from darkness, hath himself shined in our
hearts, that we might be illuminated with the
knowledge of the glory of God on the face of
Jesus the Messiah.
But we have this treasure in an earthen
vessel, that the excellency of the power might be
from God, and not from us.
8
And in every thing we are oppressed, but not
suffocated; we are corrected, but not
condemned;
9
we are persecuted, but not forsaken; we are
prostrated, but perish not.
10
For we bear in our body, at all times, the
dying of Jesus; that the life also of Jesus might
be manifested in our body.
11
For if we are delivered over alive unto death,
for Jesus' sake, even so also will the life of
Jesus be manifested in this our mortal body.
12
Now therefore, in us death is active, but in
you, life.
13
Having therefore the same spirit of faith, (as it
is written, I believed, therefore also have I
spoken,) we also believe, and therefore speak;
14
knowing that he, who resuscitated our Lord
Jesus, will also resuscitate us by Jesus, and will
receive us, with you, to himself.
15
For all things are for your sakes, that while
grace aboundeth by means of many,
thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.
16
For this cause we faint not; for though our
outward man perish, yet the inner [man] is
renovated day by day.
17
For the affliction of the present time, though
very small and light, prepareth for us great glory,
without end, for ever and ever;
18
while we look not at these seen things, but at
those not seen; for these seen things are
temporary, but those not seen are eternal.
5:1 For we know that, if our house on earth—
this of the body, were dissolved, yet we have a
building of God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in heaven.
2
And on this account also, we groan, and wish
to be clothed with our house from heaven:
3
if indeed, when clothed, we shall not be found
naked.
4
For while we are here in this house, we groan
under its burden; yet ye desire, not to throw it
off; but to be clothed over it, so that its mortality
may be absorbed in life.
5
And he that prepareth us for this thing, is God:
who hath given us the earnest of his Spirit.
6 3
Therefore, because we know and are
persuaded, that while we lodge in the body we
sojourn away from our Lord;
7 4
(for we walk by faith, and not by sight;)
8
therefore we are confident, and desirous to be
away from the body, and to be with our Lord.
9 5
We are assiduous, that whether we are
absent, or whether at home, we may please him.
10
For we are all to stand before the judgment-
seat of the Messiah, that each may receive
retribution in the body, [for] what he hath done in
it, whether of good, or whether of evil.
11
Therefore because we know the fear of our
Lord we persuade men; and we are made
manifest unto God; and I hope also, we are
made manifest to your minds.
12
We do not again laud ourselves to you; but
we give you occasion to glory in us, to them who
glory in appearance and not in heart.
13
For if we are extravagant, it is for God: and if
we are discreet, it is for you.
14
For the love of the Messiah constraineth us to
reason thus: One died for all; therefore are all
dead.
15
And he died for all, that they who live should
not live to themselves, but to him who died for
them and rose again.
16
And therefore, we know no person after the
flesh: and if we have known the Messiah after
the flesh, yet henceforth we know [him] no more.
17
Whoever therefore is in the Messiah, is a new
creature: old things have passed away;
18
and all things are made new, by God; who
hath reconciled us to himself by the Messiah,
and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation.
19
For God was in the Messiah, who hath
reconciled the world with his majesty, and did
not reckon to them their sins; and who hath
placed in us the word of reconciliation.
20
We are therefore ambassadors for the
Messiah, and it is as if God was beseeching you
by us. In behalf of the Messiah, therefore, we
beseech [you], be ye reconciled to God.
21
For, on your account, he hath made him who
knew no sin to be sin, that we might by him
become the righteousness of God.
6:1 And as aiders we entreat of you, that the
grace of God which ye have received, may not
be ineffectual in you.
2
For he hath said, In an acceptable time have I
heard thee, and in the day of life I have aided
thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! and
behold, now is the day of life!
Give ye no occasion of offence to any one in
any thing, that there may be no reproach on our
ministry.
But we, in all things, would show ourselves to
be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in
afflictions, in necessity, in distresses,
in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in
toil, in watching, in fasting;
6
by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by
benignity, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,
7
by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God,
by the armor of righteousness on the right hand
and on the left;
8
amid honor and dishonor, amid praise and
contumely; as deceivers, and yet true;
9
as not known, and yet we are well known; as
dying, and behold, we live; as chastised, yet not
killed;
10
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as indigent,
yet enriching many; as possessing nothing, yet
having all things.
11
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened
towards you, and our heart expanded.
12
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are
straitened in your own bowels.
13
I speak as to [my] children, Pay me the debt
which ye owe, and expand your love towards
me.
14
And be ye not yoke-fellows with them that
believe not: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with iniquity? or what communion
hath light with darkness?
15
or what concord hath the Messiah with
Satan? or what part hath a believer with an
unbeliever?
16
or what agreement hath the temple of God
with that of demons? For ye are the temple of
the living God; as it is said, I will dwell among
them, and walk among them, and will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
17
Wherefore, come ye out from among them,
and be ye separate from them, saith the LORD;
and come not near the unclean thing, and I will
receive you;
18
and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be
sons and daughters to me, saith the LORD
Almighty.
7:1 Seeing, therefore, we have these promises,
my beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
defilement of the flesh and of the spirit; and let
us work righteousness, in the fear of God.
2 16
Bear with us, my brethren; we have done evil
to no one; we have corrupted no one; we have
wronged no one.
3
I speak [thus], not to condemn you; for I have
said before, that ye are treasured in our hearts,
to die and to live together.
4 2
I have great assurance before you, and have
much glorying in you; and I am full of comfort.
And joy greatly aboundeth to me, in all my
afflictions.
5 3
For, after we came to Macedonia, there was
no rest for our body, but we were distressed in
every thing; without was conflict, and within was
fear.
6
But God who comforteth the depressed,
comforted us by the arrival of Titus.
7 5
And not merely by his arrival, but also by the
refreshing with which he was refreshed by you.
For he told us of your love towards us, and of
your grief, and of your zeal in our behalf: and
when I heard it, my joy was great.
8
And although I made you sad by the epistle, I
do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I see
that that epistle, though for a time it made you
sad,
9
yet it procured me joy, not because ye had
sorrow, but because your sorrow brought you to
repentance; for ye sorrowed in godly sorrow; so
that ye received no detriment from us.
10
For, sorrowing on account of God, worketh a
conversion of the soul which is not reversed,
and a turning unto life: but the sorrowing of the
world worketh death.
11
For behold this same thing, that ye were
distressed on account of God, what solicitude it
wrought in you, and apologizing and indignation,
and fear, and love, and zeal, and revenge? And
in all things ye have shown, that ye are [now]
pure in that matter.
12
And it will be [seen] that I wrote to you, not for
the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the
sake of him who received the wrong, [only,] but
that your solicitude in respect to us might be
known before God.
13
Wherefore we were comforted; and with our
consolation, we were the more joyful for the joy
of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you
all:
14
so that I was not ashamed of that in which I
had gloried to him, respecting you; but as in
every thing we spoke the truth to you, so also
our glorying before Titus, is found to be in truth:
15
and also his bowels are the more enlarged
towards you, while he remembereth the
submission of you all, and how ye received him
with fear and trembling.
I rejoice, that in every thing I have full
confidence in you.
8:1 And, my brethren, we make known to you
the grace of God which was conferred on the
churches of the Macedonians;
that in the great trial of their affliction, there
was an abounding to their joy, and the depth of
their poverty was exuberant in the riches of their
liberality.
For I testify that, according to their ability, and
beyond their ability, in the spontaneity of their
mind,
4
they besought us, with much entreaty, that
they might participate in the beneficence of the
ministration to the saints.
And not [only] as we had expected, but they
first gave themselves unto the Lord, and to us by
the will of God.
6 23
So that we requested Titus, that as he had
begun, so he would perfect in you also the same
beneficence.
7
And as ye are enriched in every thing, in faith,
and speech, and knowledge, and in all diligence,
and in our love towards you, so abound ye in
this beneficence also.
8
I do not actually command you, but by the
promptitude of your fellow [disciples], I would
test the sincerity of your love.
9
For ye know the goodness of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, who when he was rich, for your
sakes became poor, that by his poverty ye might
be made rich.
10
And I urgently recommend to you, that which
is for your advantage; inasmuch as ye began, a
year ago, not only to purpose, but also to
perform.
11
And now complete ye by action, what ye
purposed; that as ye had a promptitude in your
purposing, so ye may fulfill [it] in action,
according to your ability.
12
For if there is a willingness, a person is
accepted according to what he hath, and not
according to what he hath not.
13
For it is not, that others may have easement,
and you pressure;
14
but that ye may be on equality at the present
time; and that your abundance may be [a
supply] to their want; that their abundance
likewise may be [a supply] to your want; that
there may be equality.
15
As it is written, He who gathered much, had
nothing over; and he that gathered little, was not
deficient.
16
But thanks be to God, who put into the heart
of Titus this solicitude for you.
17
For he received our exhortation; and,
because he was very anxious, he cheerfully set
out to visit you.
18
And we also sent with him that our brother,
whose praise in the gospel is in all the churches;
19
inasmuch as he likewise had been expressly
chosen by the churches, to accompany me with
this beneficence which is ministered by us to the
glory of God and to our cordiality.
20
And we hereby guarded, that no one should
cast censure on us, in [respect to] this
abundance which is ministered by us.
21
For we are attentive to things commendable,
not only before God, but also before men.
22
And we also sent with them that brother of
ours, who hath often, and in many things, been
proved diligent by us; and is now particularly
diligent, from the great confidence [he hath] in
you.
And therefore, if Titus [be inquired about], he
is my associate and assistant among you: or if
our other brethren, they are the legates of the
churches of the Messiah's glory.
24
Therefore exhibit ye to them, in the presence
of all the churches, a demonstration of your love
and of our glorying respecting you.
9:1 And concerning the ministration by the
saints, it would be superfluous for me to write to
you:
2
for I know the goodness of your mind; and
therefore I gloried of you before the
Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year
ago; and your zeal hath excited many.
3
Yet I sent the brethren, lest the glorying with
which we have gloried in you in regard to this
matter, should prove vain; and that ye, as I said,
may be ready;
4
so that, if the Macedonians should come with
me, and should find you unprepared, we—not to
say, ye—should be put to shame for that
glorying in which we gloried.
5
Therefore I was careful to request these my
brethren, to go before me unto you, that they
might make up this benefaction, of which ye
were advised long before to have it ready, as
being a benefaction, and not a matter of
cupidity.
6
And this [I say]: He that soweth sparingly, shall
also reap sparingly; and he that soweth
bountifully, shall also reap bountifully.
7
Every man, according to his own views, not
with sadness, not by constraint: for the Lord
loveth a joyous giver.
8
For it is in the power of God, to make all good
abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times,
and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and
may abound in every good work.
9
As it is written, He hath dispersed and given to
the poor; and his righteousness is established
for ever.
10
Now he that giveth seed to the sower, and
bread for food, may he give and multiply your
seed, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness:
11
so that in every thing, ye may be enriched
unto all liberality, to the completion of our
thanksgiving to God.
12
For the performance of this ministration, not
only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also
rich in many thanksgivings to God.
13
For on account of the test of this ministration,
we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to
the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and

that in your liberality, ye communicate with them
and with all men:
14
and they put up prayer for you, with much
love, because of the abundance of the grace of
God that is upon you.
15
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
10:1 Now I, Paul, beseech you, by the mildness
and gentleness of the Messiah, although I am
mild towards you when present, but bold
towards you when absent!
2
yet I beseech of you that, when I come, I may
not be compelled by the boldness that is in me
to be daring, as I estimate it, towards the
persons who think we walk according to the
flesh.
3
For, although we walk in the flesh, our warfare
is not after the flesh.
4
For the arms of our warfare are not those of
the flesh, but those of the power of God; by
which we subdue rebellious castles.
5
And we demolish imaginations, and every lofty
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and subjugate all reasonings to obedience
to the Messiah.
6
And we are prepared, when your obedience
shall be complete, to execute judgment on all
the disobeying.
7 5
Do ye look on outward appearances? If any
one is confident in himself that he is of the
Messiah, let him know, from himself, that as he
is of the Messiah, so also are we.
8
For if I should glory somewhat more, in the
authority which our Lord hath given me, I should
not be ashamed; for he gave it to us for your
edification, and not for your destruction.
9 8
But I forbear, lest I should be thought to terrify
you terribly, by my epistles.
10
For there are some who say, [His] epistles
are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence
is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11
But let him who saith so, consider this, that
such as we are in our epistolary discourse, when
absent, such also are we in action, when
present.
12
For we dare not value, or compare ourselves,
with those who vaunt: but they, because they
compare themselves with themselves, are not
wise.
13
But we will not glory beyond our measure, but
within the measure of the limits which God hath
imparted to us, that we should reach as far as
you.
14
For we do not stretch ourselves, as if not
reaching to you; for we do reach as far as you in
the annunciation of the Messiah.
15
And we do not glory beyond our measure, in
the toil of others: but we have the hope, that
when your faith shall mature, we shall be
magnified by you, as [being within] our measure;
16
and that we shall so abound also, as to make
announcements beyond you. It is not in the
measure of others, [and] in things ready
prepared, that we will glory.
17
But let him that will glory, glory in the LORD.
18
For not he who praiseth himself, is approved;
but he whom the LORD praiseth.
11:1 I would that ye could bear with me a little,
that I might talk foolishly: and indeed, bear ye
with me.
2
For I am jealous over you, with a godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to a husband
as a chaste virgin, whom I would present to the
Messiah.
3
But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by
his craftiness, so your minds should be
corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.
4
For if he that cometh to you, had proclaimed to
you another Jesus, whom we have not
proclaimed; or if ye had received another Spirit,
which ye have not received; or another gospel,
which ye have not accepted; ye might well have
given assent.
For, I suppose, I came not short of those
legates who most excel.
6
For, though I be rude in speech, yet not in
knowledge; but in all things we have been
manifest among you.
7
Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling
myself that ye might be exalted? and by
proclaiming the gospel of God to you gratis?
And I robbed other churches, and I took pay
[of them] for ministering to you.
9
And when I came among you and was needy,
I was burdensome to none of you; for the
brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied
my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I
will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
10
As the truth of the Messiah is in me, this
glorying shall not be made vain as to me in the
regions of Achaia.
11
Why? Because I do not love you? God
knoweth.
12
But what I do, that also I will do; that I may
cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion:
so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may
be found even as we.
13
For they are false legates, crafty workers, and
feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah.
14
And in this there is nothing strange. For if
Satan feigneth himself an angel of light,
15
it is no great thing if his ministers feign
themselves ministers of righteousness; whose
end shall be according to their works.
16
Again I say, let no one think of me, as being a
fool: or if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I
may glory a little.
17
What I am [now] saying, I say not in our Lord,
but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.
18
Because many glory after the flesh, I also will
glory.
19
For ye hear with indulgence them who lack
reason, seeing ye are wise.
20
And ye give ear to him, who putteth you in
bondage; and to him, who devoureth you; and to
him, who taketh from you; and to him, who
exalteth himself over you; and to him, who
smiteth you in the face.
21
I speak as if under contempt: I speak as if we
were impotent, through deficiency of
understanding; that in whatever thing any one is
presuming, I also am presuming.
22
If they are Hebrews, so I also: or if they are
Israelites, I also. If they are the seed of
Abraham, I also.
23
If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect
of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them:
in toils more than they, in stripes more than they,
in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.
24
By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each
time with forty stripes save one.
25
Three times was I beaten with rods: at one
time I was stoned: three times I was in
shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in
the sea, without a ship.
26
In journeyings many, in peril by rivers, in peril
by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from
Gentiles: I have been in peril in cities; I have
been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in
peril from false brethren.
27
In toil and weariness, in much watching, in
hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and
nakedness:
28
besides many other things, and the thronging
around me every day, and my anxiety for all the
churches.
29
Who becometh weak, and I become not
weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
30
If I must glory, I will glory in my infirmities.
31
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the
Messiah, blessed for ever and ever, he knoweth
that I lie not.
32
At Damascus, the commander of the army of
Aretas the king, guarded the city of the
Damascenes, to seize me.
33
And from a window, in a basket, they let me
down from the wall, and I escaped from his
hands.
12:1 Glorying must be, but it is not profitable: so
I proceed to visions and revelations of our Lord.
2
I knew a man in the Messiah fourteen years
ago, (but whether in a body, or whether out of a
body, I know not; God knoweth:) who was
caught up to the third [region] of heaven.
3
And I knew this same man; (but whether in a
body, or out of a body, I know not; God
knoweth;)
4
and he was caught up to Paradise, and heard
ineffable words, which it is not permitted a man
to utter.
5
Of him I will glory: but of myself I will not glory,
except in my infirmities.
6
Yet if I were disposed to glory, I should not be
without reason; for I declare the truth. But I
refrain, lest any one should think of me, beyond
what he seeth in me and heareth from me.
7
And, that I might not be uplifted by the
excellency of the revelations, there was
imparted to me a thorn in my flesh, the angel of
Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be uplifted.
8
Respecting this, I thrice besought my Lord,
that it might depart from me.
9
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for
thee; for my power is perfected in weakness.
Gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities,
that the power of the Messiah may rest upon
me.
10
Therefore I have pleasure in infirmities, in
reproach, in afflictions, in persecutions, in
distresses, which are for the Messiah's sake: for
when I am weak, then am I strong.
11
Behold, I have become foolish in my glorying,
for ye compelled me. For ye ought to bear
witness for me; because I was inferior in nothing
to those legates who most excel, although I was
nothing.
12
I wrought among you the signs of the legates,
with all patience; and in prodigies, and in
wonders, and in mighty deeds.
13
For in what fell ye short of the other churches;
except in this, that I was not burdensome to
you? Forgive me this fault.
14
Behold, this third time I am ready to come to
you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not
yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up
treasures for the parents, but the parents for
their children.
15
And cheerfully will I both pay [my] expenses,
and also give myself for your souls; although the
more I love you, the less ye love me.
16
But perhaps, though I was not burdensome to
you, yet, like a cunning man, I filched from you
by craftiness!
17
Was it by the hand of some other person
whom I sent to you, that I pilfered from you?
18
I requested Titus, and with him I sent the
brethren: did Titus pilfer any thing from you? Did
we not walk in one spirit, and in the same steps?
19
Do ye again suppose, that we would
apologize to you? Before God, in the Messiah
we speak: and all these things, my beloved,
[are] for the sake of your edification.
20
For I fear, lest I should come to you and not
find you such as I would wish; and lest I also
should be found by you, such as ye would not
wish; lest [there should be] contention, and
envying, and anger, and obstinacy, and
slandering, and murmuring, and insolence, and
commotion;
21
lest, when I come to you, my God should
humble me; and I should mourn over many, who
have sinned, and have not repented of the
impurity, the whoredom, and the lasciviousness,
which they have committed.
yet, that ye may be doers of good things, though
we be as reprobates.
8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but
[only] for the truth.
9
And we rejoice, when we are weak and ye are
strong. And this also we pray for, that ye may be
perfected.
10
Therefore, while absent, I write these things;
lest when I come, I should act with rigor,
according to the authority which my Lord hath
given me for your edification, and not for your
destruction.
11
Finally, my brethren, rejoice, and be
perfected, and be comforted: and may harmony
and quietness be among you; and the God of
love and of peace will be with you.
12
Salute ye one another, with a holy kiss.
13
All the saints salute you.
14
The peace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
and the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

13:1 This is the third time that I have prepare to

come to you; that, by the mouth of two or three
witnesses, every word may be established.
2
I have before said to you, and again I say to
you beforehand, (as also I said to you a second
time, while I was with you; and now also, while
absent, I write to those who have sinned and to
the others,) that if I come again, I will not spare:
3
because ye demand proof, that it is the
Messiah that speaketh by me, who hath not
been powerless among you, but powerful among
you.
4
For, though he was crucified in weakness, yet
he liveth with the power of God. We also are
weak with him; yet we are alive with him, by that
power of God which is among you.
5
Examine yourselves, whether ye stand in the
faith: prove yourselves. Do ye not acknowledge
that Jesus the Messiah is in you? And if [he is]
not, ye are reprobates.
6
But, I trust, ye will know that we are not
reprobates.
7
And I beseech God, that there may be no evil
in you, so that the proof of us may appear: and
The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians
1:1 Paul, a legate, not from men, nor by man,
but by Jesus the Messiah, and God his Father,
who raised him from the dead;
2
and all the brethren who are with me; unto the
churches which are in Galatia.
3
Grace be with you, and peace, from God the
Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah;
4
who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us from this evil world, agreeably to the
pleasure of God our Father:
5
to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6 24
I admire, how soon ye have turned from the
Messiah, who called you by his grace, unto
another gospel;
7
which doth not exist, except as there are some
who would disquiet you, and are disposed to
pervert the gospel of the Messiah.
8
But if we, or an angel from heaven, should
announce to you differently from what we have
announced to you, let him be accursed.
9
As I have just said, and now I again say it, that
if any one announce to you differently from what
ye received, let him be accursed.
10
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I
seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased
men, I should not have been a servant of the
Messiah.
11
But I make known to you, my brethren, that
the gospel announced by me, was not from
man.
12
For I did not receive it and learn it from man,
but [I had it] by revelation from Jesus the
Messiah.
13
For ye have heard of my former course of life
in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God
exceedingly, and destroyed it:
14
and that I went much farther in Judaism than
many of my contemporaries who were of my
nation, and was peculiarly zealous for the
doctrine of my fathers.
15
But when it pleased him, who separated me
from my mother's womb, and called me by his
grace,
16
to reveal his Son by me, that I should
proclaim him among the Gentiles; forthwith, I did
not open it to flesh and blood;
17
nor did I go to Jerusalem, to them who were
legates before me; but I went into Arabia, and
returned again to Damascus:
18
and after three years, I went to Jerusalem to
see Cephas; and I remained with him fifteen
days.
19
But others of the legates I saw not, except
James, our Lord's brother.
20
In the things which I am writing to you,
behold, before God! I lie not.
21
And after that, I went to the regions of Syria
and Cilicia.
22
And the churches in Judaea which were in
the Messiah; did not know me personally:
23
but this only had they heard, that he who
before persecuted us, now preacheth that faith
which in time preceding he subverted:
and they glorified God in me.
2:1 And again, after fourteen years, I went up to
Jerusalem with Barnabas; and I took with me
Titus.
2
And I went up by revelation: and I explained to
them the gospel which I announce among the
Gentiles; and I stated it to them who were
esteemed prominent, between myself and them:
lest I should have run, or might run in vain.
3
Also Titus, who was with me, and was a
Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised.
4
And in regard to the false brethren, who had
crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus
the Messiah, in order to bring me under
subjection;
5
not for the space of an hour, did we throw
ourselves into subjection to them; so that the
truth of the gospel might remain with you.
6
And they who were esteemed prominent,
(what they were, I care not; for God regardeth
not the persons of men,)—even these persons
added nothing to me.
7
But, otherwise; for they saw, that the gospel of
the uncircumcision was intrusted to me, as to
Cephas was intrusted that of the circumcision.
8
For he that was operative with Cephas in the
legateship of the circumcision, was also
operative with me in the legateship of the
Gentiles.
9
And James, Cephas, and John, who were
accounted pillars, when they perceived the
grace that was given to me, gave to me and
Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we
[should labor] among the Gentiles, and they
among the circumcision.
10
Only [they desired] that we would be mindful
of the needy; and I was solicitous to do the
same.
11
But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I
rebuked him to his face; because they were
stumbled by him.
12
For before certain ones came from James, he
ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he
withdrew himself, and separated; because he
was afraid of them of the circumcision.
13
And the rest of the Jews also were with him in
this thing; insomuch that even Barnabas was
induced to regard persons.
14
And when I saw, that they did not walk
correctly, in the truth of the gospel, I said to
Cephas, before them all: If thou art a Jew, and
livest in the Gentile way, and not in the Jewish,
why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live in the
Jewish way?
15
For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are
not sinners of the Gentiles,
16
because we know that a man is not made just
by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the
Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the
Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the
Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by
the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just.
17
And if, while we seek to become just by the
Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners,
is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of
sin? Far be it!
18
For if I should build up again the things I had
demolished, I should show myself to be a
transgressor of the precept.
19
For I, by the law, have become dead to the
law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified
with the Messiah.
20
And henceforth it is no more I who live, but
the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live
in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me.
21
I do not spurn the grace of God. For if
righteousness is by means of the law, the
Messiah died in vain.
3:1 O ye Galatians, deficient in understanding!
Who hath fascinated you? For lo, Jesus the
Messiah hath been portrayed as in a picture,
crucified before your eyes.
2 21
This only would I learn from you, Was it by
works of the law, that ye received the Spirit? or
by the hearing of faith?
3
Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the
Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh?
4
And have ye borne all these things in vain?
And I would, it were in vain!
5 23
He therefore who giveth the Spirit in you, and
who worketh miracles among you, [doth he
these things] by the deeds of the law? or by the
hearing of faith?
6 25
In like manner Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted to him for righteousness.
7
Know ye, therefore, that those who are of
faith, they are the children of Abraham.
8
For, because God knew beforehand that the
Gentiles would be made just by faith, he
preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy
scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9
Believers, therefore, it is, who are blessed with
believing Abraham.
10
For they who are of the deeds of the law, are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every
one who shall not do every thing written in this
law.
11
And that no one becometh just before God,
by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The
just by faith, shall live.
12
Now the law is not of faith; but, whoever shall
do the things written in it, shall live by them.
13
But the Messiah hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, and hath been a curse for us;
(for it is written, Cursed is everyone that is
hanged on a tree;)
14
that the blessing of Abraham might be on the
Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we
might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
15
My brethren, I speak as among men; a man's
covenant which is confirmed, no one setteth
aside, or changeth any thing in it.
16
Now to Abraham was the promise made, and
to his seed. And it said to him, not, to thy seeds,
as being many; but to thy seed, as being one,
which is the Messiah.
17
And this I say: That the covenant which was
previously confirmed by God in the Messiah, the
law which was four hundred and thirty years
after, cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise.
18
And if the inheritance were by the law, it
would not be by promise: but God gave it to
Abraham by promise.
19
What then is the law? It was added on
account of transgression, until that seed should
come, to whom belonged the promise: and the
law was given by angels through a mediator.
20
Now a mediator is not of one; but God is one.
Is the law then opposed to the promise of
God? Far be it. For if a law had been given,
which could make alive, certainly, righteousness
would have been by the law.
22
But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin,
that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah
might be given to them that believe.
But before the faith came, the law kept us
shut up unto the faith that was to be revealed.
24
The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto
the Messiah, that we might become just by faith.
But the faith having come, we are not under
the monitor.
26
For ye are all the children of God, by faith in
Jesus the Messiah.
27
For they who have been baptized into the
Messiah, have put on the Messiah.
28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither
slave nor free-born, neither male nor female; for
ye are all one in Jesus the Messiah.
29
And if ye are the Messiah's, then are ye the
seed of Abraham, and heirs by the promise.
4:1 But I say, that the heir, so long as he is a
child, differeth not from a servant, although he is
lord of all;
2 23
but he is under supervisors and stewards, until
the time established by his father.
3
So also we, while we were children, were in
subordination under the elements of the world.
4
But when the consummation of the time
arrived, God sent forth his Son; and he was from
a woman, and was under the law;
5
that he might redeem them that were under
the law; and that we might receive the adoption
of sons.
6
And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who crieth,
Father, our Father.
7
Wherefore, ye are no longer servants, but
sons; and if sons, then heirs of God through
Jesus the Messiah.
8 28
For then, when ye knew not God, ye served
them who in their nature are not gods.
9 29
But now, since ye have known God, or rather,
have been known by God, ye turn yourselves
again to the weak and beggarly elements, and
wish again to be under them!
10
Ye observe days and moons, and set times,
and years!
11
I am afraid, lest I have labored among you in
vain.
12
Be ye like me; because I have been like you.
My brethren, I beseech you. Ye have not injured
me at all.
13
For ye know, that under the infirmity of my
flesh, I at first announced the gospel to you;
14
and the trial in my flesh, ye did not despise
nor nauseate: but ye received me as an angel of
God, and as Jesus the Messiah.
15
Where then is your blessedness? For I testify
of you, that if it had been possible, ye would
have plucked out your eyes, and have given
them to me.
16
Have I become an enemy to you, by
preaching to you the truth?
17
They are zealous towards you, yet not for
good; but they wish to shut you up, that ye may
be zealous towards them.
18
And it is a good thing to be zealous at all
times in good things; and not merely when I am
present with you.
19
[Ye are] my children, of whom I travail in birth
again, till the Messiah be formed in you.
20
And I could wish to be now with you, and to
change the tone of my voice; because I am
astonished at you.
21
Tell me, ye who desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?
22
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons,
one by the bondmaid, and one by the free
woman.
But he that was by the bondmaid, was born
after the flesh; and he that was by the free
woman, was by the promise.
24
And these are allegorical of the two
covenants; the one from mount Sinai, which
bringeth forth for bondage, is Hagar.
25
For Hagar is the mount Sinai in Arabia, and
correspondeth with the present Jerusalem, and
is serving in bondage, she and her children.
26
But the Jerusalem above, is the free woman,
who is the mother of us.
27
For it is written, Be joyful, thou barren, who
bearest not: exult and shout, thou who hast not
travailed: for more numerous are the children of
the desolate than the children of the married
woman.
Now we, my brethren, like Isaac, are the
children of the promise.
And as then, he that was born after the flesh,
persecuted him [who was born] of the Spirit; so
also [is it] now.
30
But what saith the scripture? Cast out the
bondmaid, and her son; because the son of the
bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the
free woman.
31
So then, my brethren, we are not sons of the
bondwoman, but sons of the free woman.
5:1 Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty with
which the Messiah hath made us free; and be
not subjected again to the yoke of bondage.
2
Behold, I Paul say to you, That if ye become
circumcised, the Messiah is of no advantage to
you.
3
And again, I testify to every one who
becometh circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill
the whole law.
4
Ye have renounced the Messiah, ye who seek
justification by the law: and ye have apostatized
from grace.
5
For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith,
are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
6
For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is
nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith
that is perfected by love.
7
Ye did run well: who hath interrupted you, that
ye acquiesce not in the truth?
8
The bias of your mind is not from him who
called you.
9
A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.
10
I confide in you through our Lord, that ye will
entertain no other thoughts. And he that
disquieteth you, shall bear his judgment,
whoever he may be.
11
And I, my brethren, if I still preached
circumcision, why should I suffer persecution?
Hath the offensiveness of the cross ceased?
12
But I would, that they who disquiet you, were
actually cut off.
13
And ye, my brethren, have been called into
liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to
the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each
other.
14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one sentence;
in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
15
But if ye bite and devour one another,
beware, lest ye be consumed one by another.
16
And I say: Walk ye in the Spirit; and never
follow the cravings of the flesh.
17
For the flesh craveth that which is repugnant
to the Spirit; and the Spirit craveth that which is
repugnant to the flesh: and the two are the
opposites of each other, so that ye do not that
which ye desire.
18
But if ye are guided by the Spirit, ye are not
under the law.
19
For the works of the flesh are known, which
are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,
20
idol-worship, magic, malice, contention,
rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords,
21
envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all
the like things. And they who perpetrate these
things, as I have before told you, and also now
tell you, do not inherit the kingdom of God.
22
But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy,
peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity,
modesty, patience.
23
Against these there standeth no law.
24
And they who are of the Messiah, have
crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its
cravings.
25
Let us therefore live in the Spirit; and let us
press on after the Spirit.
26
And let us not be vain-glorious, despising one
another, and envying one another.
6:1 My brethren, if one of you should be
overtaken in a fault, do ye who are of the Spirit
recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be ye
cautious, lest ye also be tempted.
2
And bear ye one another's burdens, that so ye
may fulfill the law of the Messiah.
3
For if any one thinketh himself to be
something, when he is not, he deceiveth himself.
4
But let a man examine his own conduct; and
then his glorying will be within himself, and not in
others.
5
For every man must take up his own load.
6
And let him that heareth the word,
communicate to him who instructeth him, in all
good things.
7
Do not mistake; God is not deceived; for what
a man soweth, that also will he reap.
8
He who soweth in the flesh, reapeth from the
flesh corruption: and he who soweth in the Spirit,
will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9
And while we do what is good, let it not be
wearisome to us; for the time will come when we
shall reap, and it will not be tedious to us.
10
Now, therefore, while we have the
opportunity, let us practice good works towards
all men, and especially towards them of the
household of faith.
11
Behold, this epistle have I written to you with
my own hand.
12
They who are disposed to glory in the flesh,
they urge you to become circumcised, only that
they may not be persecuted on account of the
cross of the Messiah.
13
For not even they themselves, who are
circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to
become circumcised, that they may glory in your
flesh.
14
But as for me, let me not glory, except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; by whom
the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to
the world.
15
For circumcision is nothing; neither is
uncircumcision; but a new creation.
16
And they who press forward in this path,
peace be on them, and mercy; and on the Israel
of God.
17
Henceforth let no one put trouble upon me;
for I bear in my body the marks of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah.
18
My brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus the
Messiah, be with your spirit. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians
1:1 Paul, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the
pleasure of God, to them who are at Ephesus,
sanctified, and believing in Jesus the Messiah:
2 20
Peace be with you, and grace from God our
Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, who hath blessed us with all
blessings of the Spirit in heaven, by the
Messiah:
4
according as he had previously chosen us in
him, before the foundation of the world, that we
might be holy and without blame before him;
and, in love, predestinated us for himself;
5 23
and adopted us for sons, in Jesus the
Messiah, as was agreeable to his pleasure:
6
that the glory of his grace might be glorified,
which he poured upon us by his Beloved One;
7
by whom we have redemption, and the
forgiveness of sins by his blood, according to the
riches of his grace,
8
which hath abounded in us, in all wisdom and
all spiritual understanding.
9
And he hath made us know the mystery of his
pleasure, which he had before determined in
himself to accomplish,
10
in the dispensation of the fullness of times;
that all things might again be made new in the
Messiah, things in heaven and [things] on earth.
11
And in him we are elected, according as he
predestined us and willed, who worketh all
things according to the counsel of his pleasure;
12
that we should be they who first hoped in the
Messiah, to the honor of his glory.
13
In whom, ye also have heard the word of
truth, which is the gospel of your life, and have
believed in him; and have been sealed with the
Holy Spirit, who was promised,
14
who is the earnest of our inheritance, until the
redemption of them that are alive, and for the
praise of his glory.
15
Therefore, lo I also, since I heard of your faith
in our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and of your love
towards all the saints,
16
cease not to give thanks on your account,
and to remember you in my prayers;
17
that the God of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of
wisdom and of revelation, in the recognition of
him;
18
and that the eyes of your hearts may be
enlightened, so that ye may know what is the
hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints;
19
and what is the excellence of the majesty of
his power in us who believe; according to the
efficiency of the strength of his power,
which he put forth in the Messiah, and raised
him from the dead, and seated him at his right
hand in heaven,
21
high above all principalities, and authorities,
and powers, and lordships, and above every
name that is named, not only in this world but
also in that to come:
22
and he hath subjected all things under his
feet; and hath given him who is high over all, to
be the head of the church;
which is his body, and the fullness of him who
filleth all in all:
2:1 and also you, [he filleth,] who were dead in
your sins, and in your offences,
2
in the which ye before walked, according to
the worldliness of this world, and according to
the pleasure of the prince potentate of the air,
that spirit which is active in the children of
disobedience:
3
in which deeds we also, formerly, were
conversant, in the cravings of our flesh; and we
did the pleasure of our flesh, and of our mind,
and were altogether the children of wrath, like
the rest.
4
But God who is rich in his mercies, because of
the great love with which he loved us,
5
when we were dead in our sins, quickened us
with the Messiah, and rescued us by his grace;
6
and resuscitated us with him, and seated us
with him in heaven, in Jesus the Messiah:
7
that he might show to the coming ages the
magnitude of the riches of his grace, and his
benignity towards us in Jesus the Messiah.
8
For it is by his grace we are rescued, through
faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the
gift of God:
9
not of works, lest any one glory.
10
For we are his creation; who are created in
Jesus the Messiah, for good works, which God
hath before prepared for us to walk in.
11
Wherefore be mindful, that ye formerly were
carnal Gentiles; and ye were called the
uncircumcision, by that which is called the
circumcision, and which is the work of the hands
in the flesh.
12
And ye were, at that time, without the
Messiah; and were aliens from the regulations of
Israel; and strangers to the covenant of the

promise; and were without hope, and without
God, in the world.
13
But now, by Jesus the Messiah, ye who
before were afar off, have been brought near by
the blood of the Messiah.
14
For he is himself our peace, who hath made
the two [become] one, and hath demolished the
wall which stood in the midst, and the enmity, by
his flesh;
15
and by his prescriptions he hath abolished
the law of ordinances; that, in himself, he might
make the two to be one new man; and he hath
made peace,
16
and hath reconciled both with God, in one
body, and hath slain the enmity by his cross.
17
And he came, and proclaimed peace to you
afar off, and to those near:
18
because, by him there is access for us both,
by one Spirit, unto the Father.
19
Wherefore, ye are not strangers, nor
sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the
saints, and of the household of God.
20
And ye are built upon the foundations of the
legates and the prophets; and Jesus the
Messiah hath become the head of the corner in
the edifice.
21
And in him all the edifice is framed together,
and groweth into a holy temple in the LORD;
22
while ye also are builded in him, for a
habitation of God through the Spirit.
3:1 On this account, I Paul am a prisoner of
Jesus the Messiah, for the sake of you Gentiles:
2 21
if so be, ye have heard of the dispensation of
the grace of God, which was given to me among
you:
3
that by revelation there was made known to
me the mystery, (as I have [now] written to you
in brief,
4
so that while ye read, ye might be able to
understand my knowledge of the mystery of the
Messiah,)
5
which in other generations was not made
known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed
to his holy legates and to his prophets, by the
Spirit;
6
that the Gentiles should be sharers. of his
inheritance, and partakers of his body, and of
the promise which is given in him by the gospel;
7
of which I have been a minister, according to
the gift of the goodness of God, which was
imparted to me by the operation of his power:
8 7
to me, who am the least of all the saints, hath
this grace been given, that I should announce
among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
the Messiah,
9
and should show to all men what is the
dispensation of the mystery, which for ages was
hid up in God the Creator of all [things]:
10
so that, by means of the church, the manifold
wisdom of God might become known to the
principalities and powers that are in heaven:
11
which [wisdom] he arranged ages before, and
he hath executed it by Jesus the Messiah our
Lord;
12
through whom we have boldness and access,
in the confidence of his faith.
13
Therefore I pray, that I may not be
discouraged by my afflictions, which are for your
sakes; for this is your glory.
14
And I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah,
15
from whom the whole family in heaven and
on earth is named;
16
that he would grant you, according to the
riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might
by his Spirit; that in your inner man
17
the Messiah may dwell by faith, and in your
hearts by love, while your root and your
foundation waxeth strong;
18
and that ye may be able to explore, with all
the saints, what is the height and depth, and
length and breadth,
19
and may know the greatness of the Messiah's
love; and [that] ye may be filled with all the
fullness of God.
20
Now to him who is able, by his almighty
power, to do for us even more than we ask or
think, according to his power that worketh in us;
to him be glory, in his church, by Jesus the
Messiah, in all generations, for ever and ever.
Amen.
4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in our Lord, beseech
of you, that ye walk, (as it becometh the calling
wherewith ye are called,)
2
with all lowliness of mind, and quietness, and
long suffering; and that ye be forbearing one
towards another, in love.
3
And be ye solicitous to keep the unity of the
Spirit, in a bond of peace;
4
so that ye may become one body, and one
Spirit; even as ye are called unto one hope of
your calling.
5
For, the LORD is one, and the faith one, and
the baptism one;
6
and one God is the Father of all, and over all,
and by all, and in us all.
And to each of us grace is given, according to
the measure of the gift of the Messiah.
8 26
Wherefore it is said: He ascended on high,
and carried captivity captive, and gave gifts to
men.
9 28
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he
also previously descended to the interior
[regions] of the earth?
10
He who descended, is also the same that
ascended up, high above all the heavens, that
he might fulfill all things.
11
And he gave some, legates; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,
pastors and teachers:
12
for perfecting the saints, for the work of the
ministry, for the edification of the body of the
Messiah;
13
until we all become one and the same, in faith
and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and
one complete man according to the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Messiah:
14
and that we might not be children, agitated
and turned about by every wind of the crafty
doctrines of men who plot to seduce by their
subtilty:
15
but that we might be established in our love;
and that every thing in us might progress in the
Messiah, who is the head:
16
and from him [it is], the whole body is framed
together and compacted by all the junctures,
according to the gift that is imparted by measure
to each member, for the growth of the body; that
his edifice may be perfected in love.
17
And this I say, and testify in the LORD, that
henceforth ye walk not as the other Gentiles,
who walk in the vanity of their mind:
18
and they are dark in their understandings,
and are alienated from the life of God, because
there is not in them knowledge, and because of
the blindness of their heart.
19
They have cut off their hope, and have given
themselves over to lasciviousness, and to the
practice of all uncleanness in their greediness.
20
But ye have not so learned the Messiah;
21
if ye have truly heard him, and by him have
learned as the truth is in Jesus.
22
But [ye have learned], that ye should lay
aside your former practices, the old man that is
corrupted with the lusts of error;
23
and should be renewed in the spirit of your
minds;
24
and should put on the new man, that is
created by God in righteousness and in the
holiness of truth.
25
Wherefore, put away from you lying, and
speak ye the truth each with his neighbor; for we
are members one of another.
Be ye angry, and sin not: and let not the sun
go down upon your wrath.
27
And give no place to the Accuser.
And let him that stole, steal no more; but let
him labor with his hands, and do good acts; that
he may have to give to him who needeth.
29
Let no hateful language come from your
mouth, but that which is decorous, and useful for
edification, that it may convey grace to those
who hear.
30
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed for the day of
redemption.
31
Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath, and
clamoring, and reviling, be taken from you, with
all malice:
32
and be ye affectionate towards one another,
and sympathetic; and forgive ye one another, as
God by the Messiah hath forgiven us.
5:1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear
children:
2
and walk in love; as the Messiah also hath
loved us, and hath given up himself for us, an
offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet odor.
3
But whoredom, and all impurity, and avarice
let them not be at all heard of among you, as it
becometh the saints;
4
Neither obscenities, nor words of folly, or of
division, or of scurrility, which are not useful; but
instead of these, thanksgiving.
5
For this know ye, that every man who is a
whoremonger, or impure, or avaricious, or a
worshipper of idols, hath no inheritance in the
kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
6
Let no man deceive you with vain words; for it
is on account of these things that the wrath of
God cometh on the children of disobedience.
7
Therefore be ye not like them.
8
For ye were heretofore darkness, but now are
ye light in our Lord: therefore, as the children of
light, so walk ye.
9
For the fruits of the light are in all goodness,
and righteousness, and truth.
10
And search out what is pleasing before our
Lord:
11
And have no commerce with the works of
darkness which are unfruitful, but reprove them.
12
For the things they do in secret, it is
nauseous even to mention.
13
For all things are exposed and made manifest
by the light: and whatever maketh manifest, is
light.
14
Wherefore it is said: Awake thou that
sleepest, and arise from the dead, and the
Messiah will illuminate thee.
15
See therefore, that ye walk circumspectly; not
like the simple,
16
but like the wise, who purchase their
opportunity; because the days are evil.
17
Therefore, be not lacking in understanding;
but understand ye what is the pleasure of God.
18
And be not drunk with wine, in which is
dissoluteness; but be ye filled with the spirit.
19
And converse with yourselves in psalms and
hymns; and with your hearts sing to the LORD, in
spiritual songs.
20
And give thanks to God the Father, at all
times, for all men, in the name of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah.
21
And be submissive one to another, in the love
of the Messiah.
22
Wives, be ye submissive to your husbands,
as to our Lord.
23
Because the husband is the head of the wife,
even as the Messiah is the head of the church;
and he is the vivifier of the body.
24
And as the church is subject to the Messiah,
so also let wives be to their husbands in all
things.
25
Husbands, love your wives, even as the
Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself
up for it;
26
that he might sanctify it, and cleanse it, by the
washing of water, and by the word;
27
and might constitute it a glorious church for
himself, in which is no stain, and no wrinkle, and
nothing like them; but that it might be holy and
without blemish.
28
It behooveth men so to love their wives, as
[they do] their own bodies. For he that loveth his
wife loveth himself.
29
For no one ever hated his own body; but
nourisheth it, and provideth for it, even as the
Messiah the church.
30
For we are members of his body and of his
flesh, and of his bones.
31
For this reason, a man should quit his father
and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and the
two should be one flesh.
32
This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of
the Messiah, and of his church.
33
Nevertheless, let each of you severally so
love his wife, even as himself: and let the wife
reverence her husband.
6:1 Children, obey your parents in our Lord; for
this is right.
2
And the first commandment with promise, is
this: Honor thy father and thy mother;
3
that it may be well with thee, and that thy life
may be prolonged on the earth.
4
And parents, anger not your children; but train
them up in the discipline and doctrine of our
Lord.
5
Servants, be obedient to your masters after
the flesh, with fear, and with trepidation, and
with simplicity of heart, as unto the Messiah.
6
Not in the sight of the eye, as if ye were
pleasing men; but as the servants of the
Messiah, who are doing the will of God.
7
And serve them with your whole heart, in love,
as if serving our Lord and not men;
8
knowing that whatever good thing a man may
do, the same will be recompensed to him by our
Lord, whether he be a servant or a free man.
9
Also ye masters, do ye so to your servants.
Forgive them a fault; because ye know, that ye
have a master in heaven; and there is no
respect of persons with him.
10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in our Lord,
and; in the energy of his power:
11
And put ye on; the whole armor of God, so
that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of
the Accuser.
12
For our conflict is not with flesh and blood,
but with principalities, and with those in
authority, and with the possessors of this dark
world, and with the evil spirits that are beneath
heaven.
13
Therefore put ye on the whole armor of God,
that ye may be able to meet the evil [one]; and,
being in all respects prepared, may stand firm.
14
Stand up therefore, and gird your loins with
truth; and put on the breastplate of
righteousness;
15
and defend your feet with the preparation of
the gospel of peace.
16
And herewith take to you the confidence of
faith, by which ye will have power to quench all
the fiery darts of the evil [one].
17
And put on the helmet of rescue; and take
hold of the sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God.
18
And pray ye, with all prayers and
supplications, in spirit, at all times: and in prayer
be watchful, at all seasons, praying constantly,
and interceding for all the saints:
19
and also for me; that language may be given
me, in the opening of my mouth; so that I may
boldly proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
20
of which I am a messenger in chains; that I
may utter it boldly, as I ought to utter it.
21
And that ye also may know my affairs, and
what I am doing, lo, Tychicus, a beloved brother,
and a faithful minister in our Lord, will acquaint
you;
22
whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that
ye might know what is [going on] with me, and
that your hearts may be comforted.
23
Peace be with the brethren, and love with
faith, from God the Father, and from our Lord
Jesus the Messiah.
24
Grace be with all them who love our Lord
Jesus the Messiah without corruptness. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians
1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus the
Messiah, to all the saints that are in Jesus the
Messiah at Philippi, with the elders and
deacons.
2
Grace be with you, and peace from God our
Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3 20
I thank my God at the constant recollection of
you,
4
in all my prayers respecting you; and while I
rejoice, I adore;
5
on account of your fellowship in the gospel,
from the first day until now.
6
Because I am confident of this, that he who
hath begun the good works in you, will
accomplish them until the day of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah.
7
For thus it is right for me to think of you all,
because ye are permanently in my heart, and
because, both in my bonds and in the
vindication of the truth of the gospel, ye are my
associates in grace.
8
For God is my witness, how I love you in the
bowels of Jesus the Messiah.
9 26
And this I pray for, that your love may still
increase and abound, in knowledge, and In all
spiritual understanding:
10
so that ye may discern the things that are
suitable; and may be pure and without offence,
in the day of the Messiah,
11
and be full of the fruits of righteousness which
are by Jesus the Messiah, to the praise and
glory of God.
12
And I would that ye might know, my brethren,
that the transaction in regard to me, hath
eventuated rather for the furtherance of the
gospel;
13
so that my bonds, on account of the Messiah,
are matter of notoriety in all the court, and to all
others.
14
And many of the brethren in our Lord have
become confident, on account of my bonds, and
are more bold to speak the word of God without
fear.
15
And they herald [it], some from envy and
contention; but others with good will, and with
love for the Messiah;
16
because they know that I am appointed for
the vindication of the gospel.
17
And they who herald the Messiah in
contention, do it not sincerely; but they hope to
add pressure to my bonds.
18
And in this I have rejoiced, and do rejoice,
that in every form, whether in pretence or in
truth, the Messiah is heralded.
19
For I know, that these things will be found
[conducive] to my life, through your prayers and
the gift of the Spirit of Jesus the Messiah.
So that I hope and expect, that I shall in
nothing be put to shame; but with uncovered
face, as at all times, so now, the Messiah will be
magnified in my body, whether by life or by
death.
21
For my life is, the Messiah; and if I die, it is
gain to me.
22
But if I have fruits of my labors in this life of
the flesh, I know not what I shall choose.
23
For the two press upon me: I desire to be
liberated, that I may be with the Messiah; and
this would be very advantageous to me.
24
But also the business in regard to you, urges
upon me to remain in the body.
25
And this I confidently know, that I shall
continue and remain, for your joy, and for the
furtherance of your faith;
so that when I come again to you, your
glorying, which is in Jesus the Messiah only, will
abound through me.
27
Let your conduct be as becometh the gospel
of the Messiah; so that if I come I may see you,
and if absent I may hear of you, that ye stand
fast in one spirit and in one soul, and that ye
strive together in the faith of the gospel.
28
And in nothing be ye startled, by those who
rise up against us; [which is] an indication of
their destruction, and of life for you.
29
And this is given to you by God, that ye not
only really believe in the Messiah, but also that
ye suffer on his account;
30
and that ye endure conflict, as ye have seen
in me, and now hear concerning me.
2:1 If, therefore, ye have consolation in the
Messiah, or if a commingling of hearts in love, or
if a fellowship of the Spirit, or if compassions
and sympathies;
2
complete ye my joy, by having one
apprehension, and one love, and one soul, and
one mind.
3
And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but,
with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his
neighbor as better than himself.
4
And let not each be solicitous [only] for
himself, but every one also for his neighbor.
5 25
And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the
Messiah also thought;
6
who, as he was in the likeness of God,
deemed it no trespass to be the coequal of God;
7 26
yet divested himself, and assumed the
likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of
men, and was found in fashion as a man;
8 27
and he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
9
Wherefore, also, God hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is more excellent
than all names;
10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of [beings] in heaven, and on earth, and
under the earth;
11
and that every tongue should confess that
Jesus the Messiah is the LORD, to the glory of
God his Father.
12
Therefore, my beloved, as ye have at all
times obeyed, not only when I was near to you,
but now when I am far from you, prosecute the
work of your life, more abundantly, with fear and
with trembling.
13
For God is operating in you, both to purpose,
and also to perform that which ye desire.
14
Do all things without murmuring, and without
altercation;
15
that ye may be perfect and without blemish,
as the sincere children of God, who are resident
in a perverse and crooked generation; and that
ye may appear among them as luminaries in the
world;
16
so that ye may be to them in place of life; for
my glory in the day of the Messiah, that I may
not have run in vain or toiled for naught.
17
And if I should be made a libation upon the
sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and
exult with you all.
18
And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me.
19
But I hope in our Lord Jesus, that I shall
shortly send Timothy unto you, so that I also
may have composure, when informed
concerning you.
20
For I have no other one here, who, like my
self, will sincerely care for your welfare.
21
For they all seek their own, not the [things] of
Jesus the Messiah.
22
But ye know the proof of him, that as a son
with his father, so he labored with me in the
gospel.
23
Him I hope shortly to send to you, when I
shall have seen how [things result] with me.
24
And I trust in my Lord, that I shall shortly
come myself to you.
But now, a circumstance urged me to send to
you Epaphroditus, the brother who is an
assistant and laborer with me, but is your legate
and minister to my wants.
For he longed to see you all, and was
anxious, because he knew ye had heard, that he
was sick.
And indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but
God had mercy on him: nor was it on him only,
but also on me, that I might not have trouble
upon trouble.
28
Promptly, therefore, have I sent him to you;
so that when ye see him, ye may again be joyful,
and I may have a little breathing.
29
Receive him then in the LORD, with all joy;
and hold in honor those who are such.
30
For, because of the Messiah's work, he came
near to death, and little regarded his life, that he
might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to
me.
3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in our Lord. To
write these [things] again and again to you, is
not irksome to me, because they make you
cautious.
2
Beware of dogs; beware of evil doers; beware
of the clipped in flesh.
3
For we are the [real] circumcision, who
worship God in spirit, and glory in Jesus the
Messiah, and place no reliance on the flesh.
4
And yet I might place reliance on the flesh.
For, if any one thinketh that his reliance should
be on the flesh, I might [do so] more than he.
5
Circumcised when eight days old; of the stock
of Israel; of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew,
descendant of Hebrews; as to the law, a
Pharisee;
6
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as
to the righteousness of the law, I was without
fault.
7
But these things, which had been my
excellence, I have accounted a detriment,
because of the Messiah.
8
And now also I account them all a detriment,
because of the excellency of the knowledge of
Jesus the Messiah my Lord; for the sake of
whom, I have parted with all things, and have
accounted [them] as dung, that I might gain the
Messiah,
9
and be found in him; since my righteousness
is not [now] that from the law, but that which is
from faith in the Messiah, that is, the
righteousness which is from God;
10
that thereby I might know Jesus, and the
efficacy of his resurrection; and might participate
in his sufferings, and be assimilated to his death:
11
if so be, I may attain to the resurrection from
the dead.
12
Not as though I had already taken [the prize],
or were already complete; but I run [in the race],
if so I may take that, for which Jesus the
Messiah took me.
13
My brethren, I do not consider myself, as
having taken [it]. But one thing I know, that I
forget the things behind me, and reach for the
things before me;
14
and I run straight for the goal, that I may
obtain the [prize] of victory of the call of God
from on high, by Jesus the Messiah.
15
Therefore let those who are perfect, have
these views; and if ye differently view any thing,
God will reveal that also to you.
16
Nevertheless, that we may attain to this, let
us proceed on in one path, and with one
consent.
17
Be like me, my brethren; and contemplate
them, who walk after the pattern ye have seen in
us.
18
For there are many who walk otherwise; of
whom I have often told you, and I now tell you,
with weeping, that they are adversaries of the
cross of the Messiah;
19
whose end is destruction; whose god is their
belly, and their glory their shame; whose
thoughts are on things of the earth.
20
But our concern is with heaven; and from
thence we expect our Vivifier, our Lord, Jesus
the Messiah;
21
who will change the body of our abasement,
that it may have the likeness of the body of his
glory, according to his great power, whereby all
things are made subject to him.
4:1 Wherefore, my beloved and dear brethren,
my joy and my crown!---so stand ye fast in our
Lord, my beloved!
2 19
I beseech of Euodias and Syntyche, that they
be of one mind in our Lord.
3
I also beseech of thee, my true yokefellow,
that thou assist those women who toiled with me
in the gospel; together with Clement, and with
the rest of my helpers, whose names are written
in the book of life.
4
Rejoice ye in our Lord, at all times; and again I
say, Rejoice.
5
Let your humility be recognized among all
men. Our Lord is near.
6
Be anxious for nothing; but at all times, by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make
known your requests before God.
7
And the peace of God, which surpasseth all
knowledge, will keep your hearts and your
minds, through Jesus the Messiah.
8
Finally, my brethren, what things are true, and
what things are decorous, and what things are
right, and what things are pure, and what things
are lovely, and what things are commendable,
and deeds of praise and approbation, on these
be your thoughts.
9
What things ye have learned, and received,
and heard, and seen, in me, these do ye: and
the God of peace will be with you.
10
And I rejoice greatly in our Lord, that ye have
[again] commenced caring for me; even as ye
had before cared [for me,] but ye had not the
opportunity.
11
Yet I say this, not because I was in want; for I
have learned to make that satisfy me, which I
have.
12
I know how to be depressed, and I also know
how to abound in every thing; and in all things
am I exercised, both in fullness and in famine, in
abundance and in penury.
13
I find strength for every thing, in the Messiah
who strengtheneth me.
14
Yet ye have done well, in that ye
communicated to my necessities.
15
And ye know also, Philippians, that in the
beginning of the annunciation, when I left
Macedonia, not one of the churches
communicated with me in respect to receiving
and giving, except ye only;
16
that also at Thessalonica, once and again ye
sent me relief.
17
Not that I desire a gift; but I wish fruits may
multiply unto you.
18
I have [now] received all, and I abound, and
am full: and I accepted all that ye sent to me by
Epaphroditus, a sweet odor, and an acceptable
sacrifice that pleaseth God.
And may God supply all your necessity,
according to his riches, in the glory of Jesus the
Messiah.
20
And to God our Father, be glory and honor,
for ever and ever. Amen.
21
Salute all the saints who are in Jesus the
Messiah. The brethren who are with me, salute
you.
22
All the saints salute you, especially those of
Caesar's household.
23
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, be
with you all. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians
1:1 Paul, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the
pleasure of God, and Timothy a brother,
2 20
to them who are at Colosse, the brethren, holy
and believing in Jesus the Messiah: peace be
with you, and grace from God our Father.
3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, at all times, and pray for
you;
4
lo, ever since we heard of your faith in Jesus
the Messiah, and of your love to all the saints;
5
because of the hope that is laid up for you in
heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of
truth of the gospel;
6 23
which is announced to you, as also to all the
world; and which groweth and yieldeth fruits, as
it doth also among you from the day ye heard
and knew the grace of God in reality:
7
as ye learned from Epaphras, our beloved
fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister
of the Messiah;
8
and who hath made known to us your love in
the Spirit.
9
Therefore we also, from the day we heard [of
it], have not ceased to pray for you; and to ask
that ye may be filled with a knowledge of the
good pleasure of God, in all wisdom, and in all
spiritual understanding;
10
that ye may walk as is right, and may please
God with all good works, and may yield fruits,
and grow in the knowledge of God;
11
and may be strengthened with all strength,
according to the greatness of his glory, in all
patience and long suffering;
12
and may, with joy, give thanks to God the
Father, who hath fitted us for a portion of the
inheritance of the saints in light;
13
and hath rescued us from the dominion of
darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of
his beloved Son;
14
by whom we have redemption and remission
of sins:
15
who is the likeness of the invisible God, and
the first-born of all creatures:
16
and by him was created every thing that is in
heaven and on earth, all that is seen and all that
is unseen, whether thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or sovereignties; every thing was
through him, and was created by him:
17
and he was prior to all, and by him every
thing exists.
18
And he is the head of the body the church; as
he is the head and first-born from among the
dead, that he might be the first in all things.
19
For it pleased [the Father], that in him all
fullness should dwell;
and by him, to reconcile all things to himself;
and through him, he hath pacified, with the blood
of his cross, both [those] on earth and those in
heaven.
21
And also to you, who were before alienated
and enemies in your minds, because of your evil
deeds,
22
to you, he hath now given peace, by the body
of his flesh, and by his death; that he might
establish you in his presence, holy, without
blemish, and without offence;
provided ye continue in your faith, your
foundation being firm, and ye be not removed
from the hope of the gospel; of which ye have
heard, that it is proclaimed in all the creation
beneath heaven; of which [gospel] I Paul am a
minister.
24
And I rejoice in the sufferings which are for
your sakes; and, in my flesh, I fill up the
deficiency in the afflictions of the Messiah, in
behalf of his body, which is the church;
25
of which I am a minister, according to the
dispensation of God which is given to me among
you, that I should fulfill the word of God,
26
[namely,] that mystery, which was hidden for
ages and generations, but is now revealed to his
saints;
27
to whom God would make known what is the
riches of the glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; which [mystery] is the Messiah; who in
you is the hope of our glory;
28
whom we proclaim, and teach and make
known to every man, in all wisdom; that we may
present every man perfect in Jesus the Messiah.
29
And for this also, I toil and strive, with the aid
of the strength that is imparted to me.
2:1 And I wish you to know, what a struggle I
have for you, and for them of Laodicea, and for
the others who have not seen my face in the
flesh;
2
that their hearts may be comforted, and that
they, by love, may come to all the riches of
assurance, and to the understanding of the
knowledge of the mystery of God the Father,
and of the Messiah,
3
in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom
and of knowledge.
4
And this I say, lest any one should mislead
you by the persuasiveness of words.
5 23
For though I am separated from you in the
flesh, yet I am with you in spirit; and I rejoice at
beholding your good order, and the stability of
your faith in the Messiah.
6
As therefore ye have received Jesus the
Messiah our Lord, walk ye in him,
7
strengthening your roots and building up
yourselves in him, and establishing yourselves
in the faith which ye have learned, in which may
ye abound in thanksgiving.
8 3
Beware, lest any man make you naked by
philosophy, and by vain deception, according to
the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments
of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
9
in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity
corporeally.
10
And in him ye are also complete, because he
is the head of all principalities and authorities.
11
And in him ye have been circumcised with a
circumcision without hands, by casting off the
flesh of sins, by a circumcision of the Messiah.
12
And ye have been buried with him, by
baptism; and by it ye have risen with him; while
ye believed in the power of God, who raised him
from the dead.
13
And you, who were dead in your sins, and by
the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath vivified
with him; and he hath forgiven us all our sins:
14
and, by his mandates, he blotted out the
handwriting of our debts, which [handwriting]
existed against us, and took [it] from the midst,
and affixed [it] to his cross.
15
And, by yielding up his body, he showed
contempt for principalities and authorities; and
put them to shame, openly, in his own person.
16
Let no one therefore disquiet you about food
and drink, or about the distinctions of festivals,
and new moons, and sabbaths;
17
which were shadows of the things then future;
but the body is the Messiah.
18
And let no one wish, by abasing the mind, to
bring you under bonds, that ye subject
yourselves to the worship of angels; while he is
prying into that which he hath not seen, and is
vainly inflated in his fleshly mind,
19
and holdeth not the head, from which the
whole body is framed and constructed, with
joints and members, and groweth with the
growth [given] of God.
20
For if ye are dead with the Messiah from the
rudiments of the world, why are ye judged as if
ye were living in the world?
21
But, touch thou not, and taste thou not, and
handle thou not:
22
for these things perish in the using; and they
are the commandments and doctrines of men.
And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a
show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of
not sparing the body; not in any thing of
excellence, but in things subservient to the body.
3:1 If then ye have risen with the Messiah, seek
the things on high, where the Messiah sitteth on
the right hand of God.
2
Think of things on high; not of the things on
earth:
for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with
the Messiah, in God.
4
And when the Messiah, who is our life, shall
be manifested, then shall ye also be manifested
with him in glory.
5
Mortify therefore your members that are on the
earth; whoredom, impurity, and the passions,
and evil concupiscence, and avarice which is
idolatry.
6
For on account of these [things], the wrath of
God cometh on the children of disobedience.
7
And in these [things] ye also formerly walked,
when ye lived in them.
8
But now, put away from you all these, wrath,
anger, malice, reviling, filthy talking:
9
and lie not one to another; but put off the old
man, with all his practices;
10
and put ye on the new [man], that is renewed
in knowledge, after the likeness of his Creator;
11
where there is neither Jew nor Gentile,
neither circumcision nor uncircumcision, neither
Greek nor barbarian, neither bond nor free; but
the Messiah is all, and in all.
12
Therefore, holy and beloved, as the elect of
God, put ye on compassions, and tenderness,
and suavity, and humbleness of mind, and
gentleness, and long suffering.
13
And be ye indulgent towards one another,
and forgiving to one another: and if any one has
a complaint against his neighbor, as the
Messiah forgave you, so also do ye forgive.
14
And with all these, [join] love, which is the
girdle of perfection.
15
And let the peace of the Messiah direct your
hearts; for to that ye have been called, in one
body; and be ye thankful to the Messiah.
16
And let his word dwell in you richly, in all
wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves,
by psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and
with grace in your hearts sing ye unto God.
17
And whatever ye do in word or act, do it in the
name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and give
thanksgiving through him to God the Father.
18
Wives, be ye subject to your husbands, as is
right in the Messiah.
19
Husbands, love ye your wives, and be not for you in prayer, that ye may stand perfect and
bitter towards them. complete in all the good pleasure of God.
20 13
Children, obey your parents in every thing; for For I testify for him, that he hath great zeal for
this is pleasing before our Lord. you, and for them of Laodicea, and for them of
21
Parents, anger not your children, lest they be Hierapolis.
14
discouraged. Luke the physician, our beloved, saluteth you;
22
Servants, obey in all things your bodily also Demas.
15
masters; not in the sight of the eye only, as Salute ye the brethren in Laodicea, and
those who please men, but with a simple heart, Nymphas, and the church in his house.
16
and in the fear of the LORD. And when this epistle shall have been read
23
And whatever ye do, do it with your whole among you, cause it to be read also in the
soul, as unto our Lord, and not as to men: church of the Laodiceans; and that which is
24
and know ye, that from our Lord ye will written from Laodicea, do ye read.
17
receive a recompense as the inheritance; for ye And say to Archippus: Be attentive to the
serve the LORD the Messiah. ministry which thou hast received in our Lord,
25
But the delinquent will receive a recompense, that thou fulfill it.
18
according to the delinquency; and there is no This salutation is by the hand of me Paul.
respect of persons. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you.
Amen.
4:1 Masters, do equity and justice to your
servants; and be conscious that ye also have a
master in heaven.
2
Persevere in prayer; and be watchful in it, and
in giving thanks.
3
And pray also for us, that God would open to
us a door of speech, for uttering the mystery of
the Messiah, for the sake of which I am in
bonds;
4
that I may unfold it, and utter it, as it
behooveth me.
5
Walk in wisdom towards them without: and
redeem your opportunity.
6
And let your speech at all times be with grace;
as it were, seasoned with salt: and know ye,
how ye ought to give answer to every man.
7
And what is [occurrent] with me, will Tychicus
make known to you; who is a beloved brother,
and a faithful minister, and our fellow-servant in
the LORD:
8
whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that
he might know your affairs, and might comfort
your hearts;
9
together with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved
brother, who is from among you. These will
make known to you what is [occurrent] with us.
10
Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, saluteth you;
also Marcus, an uncle's son to Barnabas, of
whom ye have received directions, that if he
come to you, ye may kindly receive him:
11
also Jesus, who is called Justus. These are
of the circumcision, and they only have aided
me in the kingdom of God; and they have been
a comfort to me.
12
Epaphras saluteth you, who is from among
you, a servant of the Messiah, always laboring
The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
1:1 I Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the
church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the
Father and in our Lord Jesus the Messiah:
Grace be with you, and peace.
2
We give thanks to God at all times, on account
of you all, and remember you continually in our
prayers:
3
and we call to mind before God the Father the
works of your faith, and the toil of your love, and
the patience of your hope in our Lord Jesus the
Messiah.
4
For we know your election, my brethren,
beloved of God.
5 11
For our preaching among you, was not in
words only; but also in power, and in the Holy
Spirit, and in genuine persuasion. Ye also know,
how we were among you for your sakes.
6
And ye became imitators of us, and of our
Lord, in that ye received the word in great
affliction, and with the joy of the Holy Spirit.
7
And ye were a pattern for all the believers who
are in Macedonia and in Achaia.
8
For from you the word of our Lord sounded
forth; [and] not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but in every place, your faith in God is heard of;
so that we have no need to say any thing
concerning you.
9
For they declare, what an ingress we had to
you, and how ye turned from the worship of idols
unto God, that ye might worship the living and
true God;
10
while ye wait for his Son from heaven, that
Jesus whom he raised from the dead, who
delivereth us from the wrath to come.
2:1 And ye yourselves, my brethren, know our
entrance among you, that it was not in vain:
2
but we first suffered and were treated with
indignity, as ye know, at Philippi; and then, in a
great agony, with confidence in our God, we
addressed to you the gospel of the Messiah.
3
For our exhortation proceeded not from deceit,
nor from impurity, nor in guile:
4 18
but as we had been approved of God to be
intrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as
pleasing men, but God who searcheth our
hearts.
5
For at no time have we used flattering speech;
as ye know; nor a cloak of cupidity, God is
witness.
6
Neither have we sought glory from men, either
from you or from others, when we might have
been chargeable as legates of the Messiah.
7
But we were lowly among you; and like a
nurse, who fondleth her children,
8
so we also fondled [you], and were desirous to
impart to you, not the gospel of God merely, but
also our own soul, because ye were dear to us.
9
For ye recollect, brethren, that we labored and
toiled, working with our own hands, by night and
by day, that we might not be chargeable to any
one of you.
10
Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how we
preached to you the gospel of God, purely, and
uprightly, and were blameless towards all them
that believe:
as yourselves know, we entreated each one
of you, as a father his children, and comforted
your hearts:
12
and we charged you, to walk as it becometh
God, who hath called you to his kingdom and his
glory.
13
Therefore also we give thanks unceasingly to
God, that the word of God which ye received
from us, ye did not receive as the word of men,
but as being truly the word of God, which
worketh efficiently in you and in them that
believe.
14
For ye, my brethren, became assimilated to
the churches of God in Judaea, the persons who
are in Jesus the Messiah; in that ye so suffered,
even ye from your own countrymen, as also they
from the Jews,
15
the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the
Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets
and us; and they please not God, and are made
hostile to all men;
16
and they forbid us to speak to the Gentiles,
that they may have life; to fill up their sins at all
times. And wrath cometh on them to the
uttermost.
17
But we, my brethren, have been bereaved of
you for a short time, (in visible presence, not in
our hearts,) and have the more exerted
ourselves, to behold your faces, with great
affection.
And we purposed to come to you, I Paul,
once and again; but Satan hindered me.
19
For what is our hope, and our joy, and the
crown of our glorying; unless it be ye, before our
Lord Jesus at his coming?
20
For ye are our glory, and our joy.
3:1 And, because we could no longer endure it,
we were willing to be left alone at Athens,
2
and to send to you Timothy our brother, a
servant of God, and our assistant in the
announcement of the Messiah; that he might
strengthen you, and inquire of you respecting
your faith:
3
lest any of you should be disheartened by
these afflictions; for ye know, that we are
appointed thereto.
4
For also when we were with you, we
forewarned you, that we were to be afflicted; as
ye know did occur.
5
Therefore also I could not be quiet, until I sent
to learn your faith; lest the Tempter should have
tempted you, and our labor have been in vain.
6
But now, since Timothy hath come to us from
among you, and hath informed us respecting
your faith and your love, and that ye have a
good remembrance of us at all times, and that
ye desire to see us, even as we [to see] you;
7
therefore we are comforted in you, my
brethren, amid all our straits and afflictions, on
account of your faith.
8
And now, we live, if ye stand fast in our Lord.
9 15
For what thanks can we render to God in your
behalf, for all the joy with which we are joyful on
your account;
10
unless it be, that we the more supplicate
before God, by night and by day, that we may
see your faces, and may perfect what is lacking
in your faith?
11
And may God our Father, and our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, direct our way unto you;
12
and increase and enlarge your love towards
one another, and towards all men, even as we
love you;
13
and establish your hearts unblamable in
holiness, before God our Father; at the advent of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with all his saints.
4:1 Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and
beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have
received from us how ye ought to walk, and to
please God, so ye would make progress more
and more.
2
For ye know what command we gave you in
our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3 4
For this is the pleasure of God, your
sanctification; and that ye be separated from all
whoredom;
4
and that each one of you might know how to
possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor;
5 6
and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the
rest of the Gentiles who know not God:
6 7
and that ye dare not to transgress and to
overreach any one his brother, in this matter;
because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as
also we have said and testified to you in time
past.
7
For God did not call you unto impurity, but to
sanctification.
8
He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man
but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.
9
Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need
not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves
are taught of God to love one another.
10
Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are
in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren,
to be exuberant:
11
and that ye strive to be quiet, and to attend to
your own affairs; and that ye labor with your own
hands; as we directed you;
12
and that ye walk becomingly towards those
without; and that ye be dependent on no man.
13
And, I wish you to know, my brethren, that ye
should not mourn over them who have fallen
asleep, like other people who have no hope.
14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them who sleep, will God, by
Jesus, bring with him.
And this we say to you, by the word of our
Lord, that we who may survive and be alive, at
the coming of our Lord, shall not precede them
who have slept.
16
Because our Lord will himself descend from
heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of
the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and
the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;
17
and then, we who survive and are alive shall
be caught up together with them to the clouds,
to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be
ever with our Lord.
18
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these
words.
5:1 But concerning the times and seasons, my
brethren, ye need not that I write to you:
2
for ye know assuredly, that the day of our Lord
so cometh, as a thief by night.
3
While they will be saying, Peace and
quietness, then suddenly destruction will burst
upon them, as distress upon a child-bearer, and
they will not escape.
But ye, my brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief.
5
For ye are all children of the light, and children
of the day; and are not children of the night, and
children of darkness.
Let us not therefore sleep, like others; but let
us be vigilant and considerate.
For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and
they who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
8
But let us who are children of the day, be
wakeful in mind, and put on the breastplate of
faith and love, and take the helmet of the hope
of life.
9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to
the acquisition of life, by our Lord Jesus the
Messiah:
10
who died for us, that whether we wake or
sleep, we might live together with him.
11
Therefore comfort one another, and edify one
another, as also ye have done.
12
And we entreat you, my brethren, that ye
recognize them who labor among you, and who
stand before your faces in our Lord, and instruct
you:
13
that they may be esteemed by you with
abundant love; and, on account of their work,
live ye in harmony with them.
14
And we entreat you, my brethren, that ye
admonish the faulty, and encourage the faint-
hearted, and bear the burdens of the weak, and
be long suffering towards all men.
15
And beware, lest any of you return evil for
evil, but always follow good deeds, towards one
another, and towards all men.
16
And be joyful always.
17
And pray without ceasing.
18
And in every thing be thankful: For this is the
pleasure of God in Jesus the Messiah,
concerning you.
19
Quench not the Spirit.
20
Despise not prophesying.
21
Explore every thing, and hold fast the good:
22
and fly from every thing evil.
23
And may the God of peace sanctify you all,
perfectly, and keep blameless your whole spirit,
and your soul, and your body, till the coming of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
24
Faithful is he that hath called you, who will do
it.
25
My brethren, pray for us.
26
Salute all our brethren with a holy kiss.
27
I conjure you by our Lord, that this epistle be
read to all the holy brethren.
28
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be
with you. Amen.
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
1:1 Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the
church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our
Father and our Lord Jesus the Messiah:
2
Grace be with you, and peace, from God our
Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3
We are bound to give thanks to God always,
on your account, my brethren, as it is proper;
because your faith groweth exceedingly, and, in
you all, the love of each for his fellow increaseth.
4
Insomuch that we also boast of you in the
churches of God, on account of your faith, and
your patience in all the persecution and trials
that ye endure;
5 8
for a demonstration of the righteous judgment
of God; that ye may be worthy of his kingdom,
on account of which ye suffer.
6
And since it is a righteous thing with God, to
recompense trouble to them that trouble you:
7
and you, who are the troubled, he will vivify,
with us, at the manifestation of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah from heaven, with the host of his
angels;
8
when he will execute vengeance, with the
burning of fire, on them that know not God, and
on them that acknowledge not the gospel of our
Lord Jesus the Messiah.
9
For these will be recompensed with the
judgment of eternal destruction, from the
presence of our Lord, and from the glory of his
power;
10
when he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to display his wonders in his faithful
ones; for our testimony concerning you, will be
believed, in that day.
11
Therefore we pray for you, at all times; that
God would make you worthy of your calling, and
would fill you with all readiness for good deeds,
and with the works of faith by power;
12
so that the name of our Lord Jesus the
Messiah, may be glorified in you, (and) ye also
in him; according to the grace of God, and of our
Lord Jesus the Messiah.
2:1 But we entreat of you, my brethren, in regard
to the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
and in respect to our being congregated unto
him,
2
that ye be not soon agitated in your mind, nor
be troubled, neither by word, nor by spirit, nor by
letter, as coming from us, that lo, the day of our
Lord is at hand.
3 2
Let no one deceive you in any way; because
[that day will not come], unless there previously
come a defection, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition;
4
who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above
all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he
also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and
displayeth himself, as if he were God.
5
Do ye not remember, that, when I was with
you, I told you these things?
6
And now, ye know what hindereth his being
manifested in his time.
7
For the mystery of the evil One already
beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which
now hindereth shall be taken from the midst;
then at length will that evil One be revealed;
whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the
breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by
the visibility of his advent.
9
For the coming of that [evil One], is the
working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and
lying wonders,
10
and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in
them that perish; because they did not receive
the love of the truth, by which they might have
life.
11
Therefore God will send upon them the
operation of deception, that they may believe a
lie;
12
and that they all may be condemned, who
believe not the truth, but have pleasure in
iniquity.
13
But we are bound to give thanks to God
always, on your account, my brethren beloved of
our Lord, that God hath from the beginning
chosen you unto life, through sanctification of
the Spirit, and through faith in the truth.
14
For unto these it was, that God called you by
our preaching; that ye might be the glory to our
Lord Jesus the Messiah.
15
Therefore, my brethren, be established, and
persevere in the precepts which ye have been
taught, whether by word or by our epistle.
16
And may our Lord Jesus the Messiah himself,
and God our Father, who hath loved us, and
given us everlasting consolation and a good
hope through his grace,
17
comfort your hearts, and establish [you] in
every good word, and in every good work.
3:1 Henceforth, brethren, pray ye for us, that the
word of our Lord may, in every place, run and be
glorified, as with you;
and that we may be delivered from evil and
perverse men; for faith is not in all.
3
And faithful is the LORD, who will keep you and
rescue you from the evil One.
4
And we have confidence in you, through our
Lord, that what we have inculcated on you, ye
both have done, and will do.
5
And may our Lord direct your hearts to the
love of God, and to a patient waiting for the
Messiah.
6
And we enjoin upon you, my brethren, in the
name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that ye
withdraw from every brother who walketh
wickedly, and not according to the precepts
20
which ye received from us.
7
For ye know how ye ought to imitate us, who
did not walk wickedly among you.
8
Neither did we eat bread gratuitously from any
of you; but, with toil and weariness, we labored
by night and by day, that we might not be
burdensome to any of you.
9
It was not because we have no authority, but
that we might give you an example in ourselves,
that ye might imitate us.
10
And while we were with you, we also gave
you this precept, That every one who would not
work, should likewise not eat.
11
For we hear, there are some among you who
walk wickedly, and do nothing except vain
things.
12
Now such persons, we command and exhort,
by our Lord Jesus the Messiah, that in quietness
they work, and eat their own bread.
13
And my brethren, let it not be wearisome to
you, to do what is good.
14
And if any one hearkeneth not to these [my]
words in this epistle, separate that man from
you, and have no intimacy with him, that he may
be ashamed.
15
Yet, hold him not as an enemy, but admonish
him as a brother.
16
And may the Lord of peace give you peace,
always, in every thing. Our Lord be with you all.
17
The salutation in the writing of my own hand,
I Paul have written it; which is the token in all my
epistles, so I write.
18
The grace of Jesus the Messiah be with you
21
all, my brethren . Amen.

20
2 Thessalonians 3:6 – The Eastern Peshitta reads
“he” here, the Western has “they.” “Ye” is a
compromise.
21
2 Thessalonians 3:18 – Western Peshitto omits
“my brethren.”
The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy
1:1 Paul, a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the
command of God our life-giver, and of the
Messiah, Jesus our hope;
2 18
to Timothy, [my] true son in the faith: grace
and mercy and peace, from God our Father, and
the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.
3
When I was going into Macedonia, I requested
thee to remain at Ephesus, and to charge
certain persons not to teach different doctrines;
4
and not to throw themselves into fables and
stories about genealogies, of which there is no
end, which produce contention rather than
edification in the faith of God.
5
Now the end of the command is love, which is
from a pure heart, and from a good conscience,
and from true faith.
6
But from these some have strayed, and have
turned aside to vain words;
7
because they wished to be teachers of the
law, while they understood not what they speak,
nor the thing about which they contend.
8
Now, we know, that the law is a good thing, if
a man conduct himself in it, according to the law,
9
he knowing that the law was not established
for the righteous, but for the evil, and the
rebellious, and the ungodly, and the sinful, and
the perverse and for the impure, and for smiters
of their fathers and smiters of their mothers, and
for murderers,
10
and for whoremongers, and for copulators
with males, and for the stealers of free people,
and for liars, and for violators of oaths, and for
whatever is contrary to sound doctrine,
11
[namely] that of the glorious gospel of the
blessed God, with which I am intrusted.
12
And I thank him who strengthened me, [even]
our Lord Jesus the Messiah; who accounted me
faithful, and appointed me to his ministry;
13
me [I say], who before was a blasphemer,
and a persecutor, and a reviler; but I obtained
mercy, because I did it while ignorant and
without faith.
14
And in me the grace of our Lord abounded,
and faith and love, which is in Jesus the
Messiah.
15
Faithful is the declaration, and worthy to be
received, that Jesus the Messiah came into the
world to give life to sinners, of whom I was the
primary.
16
But for this cause had he mercy on me, that
in me first Jesus the Messiah might display all
his long suffering, for an example to them who
were to believe on him unto life eternal.
17
And to the king eternal, incorruptible, and
invisible, the sole God, be honor and glory for
ever and ever! Amen.
This injunction I commit to thee, my son
Timothy, according to the former predictions
concerning thee, that in them thou mightest war
this good warfare,
19
in faith and a good conscience; for they who
have repudiated this, have become destitute of
faith;
20
like Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have
delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to
be blasphemers.
2:1 I exhort thee, therefore, first of all, that thou
present to God supplication, and prayer, and
intercession, and thanksgiving, for all men:
2
for kings and magistrates, that we may dwell
in a quiet and tranquil habitation, with all
reverence for God, and with purity.
3
For this is good and acceptable before God
our life-giver;
4
who would have all men live, and be
converted to the knowledge of the truth.
5
For God is one; and the mediator between
God and men is one, [namely] the man Jesus
the Messiah;
6
who gave himself a ransom for every man; a
testimony that arrived in due time,
7
of which I am constituted a herald and legate. I
speak the truth, and do not lie, for I am the
teacher of the Gentiles in the belief of the truth.
8
I desire therefore, that men may pray in every
place, while they lift up their hands with purity,
without wrath, and without disputations.
9
So also, that women [appear] in a chaste
fashion of dress; and that their adorning be with
modesty and chastity; not with curls, or with
gold, or with pearls, or with splendid robes;
10
but with good works, as becometh women
who profess reverence for God.
11
Let a woman learn in silence, with all
submission:
12
for I do not allow a woman to teach, or to be
assuming over the man; but let her remain in
stillness.
13
For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.
14
And Adam was not seduced, but the woman
was seduced and transgressed the command.
15
Yet she shall live by means of her children, if
they continue in the faith, and in love, and in
sanctity, and in chastity.
3:1 It is a faithful saying, that if a man desireth
the eldership, he desireth a good work.
2
And an elder ought to be such, that no blame
can be found in him; and he should be the
husband of one wife, with a vigilant mind, and
sober and regular [in his habits], and
affectionate to strangers, and instructive;
3
and not a transgressor in regard to wine, and
whose hand is not swift to strike; but he should
be humble, and not contentious, nor a lover of
money;
4
and one that guideth well his own house, and
holdeth his children in subjection with all purity.
5
For if he knoweth not how to guide his own
house well, how can he guide the church of
God.
6 4
Neither let him be of recent discipleship; lest
he be uplifted, and fall into the condemnation of
Satan.
7 5
And there ought to be good testimony of him
from those without; lest he fall into reproach and
the snare of Satan.
8
And so also the deacons should be pure, and
not speak double, nor incline to much wine, nor
love base gains;
9
but should hold the mystery of the faith with a
pure conscience.
10
And let them be first tried, and then let them
serve, if they are without blame.
11
So also should the wives be chaste and of
vigilant minds; and they should be faithful in all
things; and they should not be slanderers.
12
Let the deacons be such as have each one
wife and guide well their children and
households.
13
For they who serve well [as deacons],
procure for themselves a good degree, and
much boldness in the faith of Jesus the Messiah.
14
These things I write to thee, while hoping
soon to come to thee;
15
but if I should delay, that thou mayest know
how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the
house of God, which is the church of the living
22
God. The pillar and the foundation of the truth,
16
and truly great, is this mystery of
23
righteousness, which was revealed in the
22
1 Timothy 3:15 - The structure of these sentences
is the same in the Syriac and in the Greek: and by
following the punctuation of Griesbach, Knapp, and
other modern editors of the Greek Testament, the
Syriac is accurately translated as above.
23
1 Timothy 3:16 - The reading of it or which,
instead of God, in this verse is supported by the
Syriac version.
flesh, and justified in the spirit, and seen by
angels, and proclaimed among the Gentiles, and
believed on in the world, and received up into
glory.
4:1 But the Spirit saith explicitly, that in the latter
times, some will depart from the faith; and will go
after deceptive spirits, and after the doctrine of
demons.
2
These will seduce, by a false appearance; and
will utter a lie, and will be seared in their
conscience;
3
and will forbid to marry; and will require
abstinence from meats, which God hath created
for use and for thankfulness, by them who
believe and know the truth.
Because whatever is created by God is good;
and there is nothing which should be rejected if
it be received with thankfulness;
for it is sanctified by the word of God and by
prayer.
6
If thou shalt inculcate these things on thy
brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus
the Messiah, being educated in the language of
the faith, and in the good doctrine which thou
hast been taught.
7
But the silly tales of old women, shun thou;
and occupy thyself with righteousness.
8
For, exercising the body is profitable a little
while; but righteousness is every way profitable
and hath promise of the life of the present time
and of that to come.
9
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of
reception.
10
For on this account, we toil and suffer
reproach; because we trust in the living God,
who is the life-giver of all men, especially of the
believers.
11
These things teach thou, and inculcate.
12
And let no one despise thy youth; but be thou
a pattern for the believers, in speech, and in
behavior, and in love, and in faith, and in purity.
13
Until I come, be diligent in reading, and in
prayer, and in teaching.
14
Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was
given thee by prophecy, and by the laying on of
the hand of the eldership.
15
On these things meditate; give thyself wholly
to them: that it may be obvious to all that thou
makest advances.
16
Be attentive to thyself, and to thy teaching;
and persevere in them. For in doing this, thou
wilt procure life to thyself and to them who hear
thee.

5:1 Chide not an elder, but entreat him as a
father; and the younger men, as thy brothers;
2 21
and the elder women, as mothers; and the
younger women, as thy sisters, with all purity.
3
Honor widows, who are truly widows.
4
But if a widow hath children, or grandchildren,
let them first learn to show kindness to their own
households, and to repay the obligations to their
parents; for this is acceptable before God.
5
Now she who is truly a widow, and solitary,
her hope is in God; and she persevereth in
prayers, and in supplications, by night and by
day:
6 24
But she who followeth pleasure, is dead while
she liveth.
7
These things enjoin thou on them, that they
may be blameless.
8
But if any one careth not for them who are his
own, and especially for them who are of the
household of faith, he hath rejected the faith,
and is worse than the unbelievers.
9
Therefore elect thou the widow, who is not
less than sixty years [old], and who hath been
the wife of one man,
10
and hath a reputation for good works; if she
have trained up children, if she have entertained
strangers, if she have washed the feet of saints,
if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have
walked in every good work.
11
But the younger widows do thou reject; for
they wax wanton against the Messiah, and
desire to be married:
12
and their condemnation is fixed, because
they have cast off their former faith.
13
And they also learn idleness, wandering from
house to house; and not only idleness, but also
to talk much, and to pursue vanities, and to utter
what they ought not.
14
I would therefore, that the younger women
marry, and bear children, and regulate their
houses; and that they give no occasion to the
adversary for reproach.
15
For some have already begun to turn aside
after Satan.
16
If any believing man or believing woman have
widows, let them support them; and let them not
be a burden on the church; so that there may be
a sufficiency for such as are really widows.
17
Let the elders who conduct themselves well,
be esteemed worthy of double honor; especially
they who labor in the word and in doctrine.
18
For the scripture saith Thou shalt not muzzle
the ox in threshing; and, The laborer is worthy of
his pay.
19
Against an elder, receive not a complaint,
except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.
20
Those who sin before all rebuke; that the rest
of the people may fear.
I charge thee, before God, and our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, and his elect angels, that
thou observe these things; and let not your mind
be preoccupied by any thing: and do nothing
with a respect for persons.
22
Lay not the hand hastily on any man; and
participate not in the sins of others; keep thyself
pure.
23
And hereafter drink not water, but drink a little
wine; on account of thy stomach, and thy
continuing infirmities.
There are persons, whose sins are known,
and go before them to the place of judgment;
and there are some, whom they follow after.
25
So also good deeds are known: and those
which are otherwise cannot be hid.
6:1 Let them who are under the yoke of
servitude, hold their masters in all honor; lest the
name of God and his doctrine be reproached.
2
And let them who have believing masters, not
treat them with disrespect, because they are
their brethren; but let them be more obedient,
because they are believers and beloved, in
whose service they enjoy quietness. These
things teach thou, and request of them.
3
But if there be any one, who teacheth a
different doctrine, and doth not accede to the
salutary words of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
and to the doctrine of the fear of God,
4
he is one that exalteth himself, while he
knoweth nothing; and he languisheth in the
search and inquiry about words, from which
come envy, and contention, and railing, and evil
surmising,
5
and the disputation of men, whose minds are
corrupt and destitute of the truth, and who
suppose that gain is godliness. But from these
stand thou aloof.
6
But great is our gain, which is the fear of God,
with the use of our competence.
7
For we brought nothing into the world; and we
know that we can carry nothing out of it.
8
Therefore, food and clothing satisfy us.
9
But they who desire to become rich, fall into
temptations, and into snares, and into many
lusts which are foolish and hurtful, and which
drown men in destruction and perdition:
10
for the love of money is the root of all these
evils. And there are some who, coveting it, have
erred from the faith, and brought themselves into
many sorrows.
11
But thou, O man of God, flee from these
things; and follow after righteousness, and
rectitude, and faith, and love, and patience, and
humility.
12
And contend in the good contest of faith; and
lay hold of life eternal, to which thou art called,
and [of which] thou hast confessed a good
confession before many witnesses.
13
I charge thee, before God, who quickeneth
all, and [before] Jesus the Messiah who attested
a good testimony before Pontius Pilate,
14
that thou keep the injunction, without stain,
and without blemish, until the manifestation of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah;
15
which God will, in due time make visible;
[God] the blessed and only Potentate, the King
of kings, and the Lord of lords;
16
who only is incorruptible, and dwelleth in light
to which no one can approach; and whom no
man hath seen, or even can see: to him be glory
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
17
Charge the rich of this world, that they be not
uplifted in their minds; and that they confide not
in riches, in which is no security; but in the living
God, who giveth us all things abundantly for our
comfort:
18
and that they do good works, and be rich in
well-doings; and be ready to give and to
communicate:
19
and that they lay up for themselves a good
foundation for that which is future; that they may
take hold of real life.
20
O Timothy, be careful of that which is
committed to thee; and shun vain words, and the
oppositions of false science:
21
for they who profess it, have erred from the
faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy
1:1 Paul, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the
pleasure of God, according to the promise of life
which is in Jesus the Messiah;
2
to Timothy a beloved son; grace, and mercy,
and peace, from God the Father, and from our
Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers
with a pure conscience, that I continually
remember thee in my prayers, by night and by
day:
4
and I desire to see thee, and I call to mind thy
tears; that I may be filled with joy,
5 3
by the recollection which I have, by thy
genuine faith, which dwelt first in thy
grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice,
and also, I am persuaded, in thee.
6
Wherefore I remind thee, that thou excite the
gift of God, that is in thee by the imposition of
my hands.
7
For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but
of energy, and of love, and of instruction.
8
Therefore be not thou ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but
endure evils in connection with the Gospel,
through the power of God;
9
who hath vivified us, and called us with a holy
calling; not according to our works, but
according to his good pleasure, and his grace
that was given us in Jesus the Messiah from
time before the ages,
10
and is now made known by the appearing of
our Vivifier, Jesus the Messiah; who hath
abolished death, and hath made manifest life
and immortality, by the gospel:
11
of which I am constituted a herald and a
legate, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12
Therefore I suffer these things: and I am not
ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed,
and I am persuaded that he is competent to
keep for me my deposit against that day.
13
Let the form of sound words, which thou hast
heard from me, abide with thee; with faith and
love, in Jesus the Messiah.
14
Keep thou the good deposit, by the Holy
Spirit who dwelleth in us.
15
This thou knowest, that all those in Asia have
turned from me; and that among them are
Phygellus and Hermogenes.
16
May our Lord bestow mercy on the house of
Onesiphorus; for, many times, he refreshed me,
and was not ashamed of the chains of my
imprisonment.
17
But also, when he came to Rome, he sought
for me with diligence, and found me.
18
May our Lord grant him, that he may find
mercy with our Lord, in that day. And how he
ministered to me at Ephesus, thou very well
knowest.
2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the
grace which is by Jesus the Messiah.
2
And the things thou hast heard from me by
many witnesses, these commit thou to faithful
men, who are competent to teach others also.
And endure evils, as a good soldier of Jesus
the Messiah.
4
No man, on becoming a soldier, entangleth
himself with the business of the world; that he
may please him who enlisted him.
5
And if one contend [in the games], he is not
crowned, unless he contendeth according to the
rules.
6
The husbandman who laboreth, ought first to
feed on his fruits.
7
Consider what I say. Our Lord give thee
wisdom in all things.
8
Be mindful of Jesus the Messiah, that he
arose from the dead; who was of the seed of
David, according to my gospel,
9
in which I suffer evils unto bonds, as if an evil-
doer: but the word of God is not in bonds.
10
Therefore I endure every thing, for the elect's
sake; that they also may obtain life, in Jesus the
Messiah, with eternal glory.
11
Faithful is the saying, For if we shall have
died with him, we shall also live with him;
12
and, if we shall have suffered, we shall also
reign with him. But if we shall have rejected him,
he will reject us.
13
And if we shall have not believed in him, he
abideth in his fidelity; for he cannot reject
himself.
14
Of these things admonish thou them . and
charge [them,] before our Lord, that they dispute
not, with unprofitable words, to the subversion of
those who hear them.
15
And study to present thyself before God,
perfectly, a laborer who is not ashamed, one
who correctly announceth the word of truth.
16
Avoid vain discourses, in which there is no
profit; for they very much add to the wickedness
of those occupied with them.
17
And their discourse, like an eating cancer, will
lay hold upon many. And one of these is
Hymeneus, and another Philetus;
18
who have wandered from the truth, while they
say, The resurrection of the dead hath passed:
and they subvert the faith of some.
19
But the firm foundation of God standeth; and
it hath this seal, The LORD knoweth them who
are his: and, Let every one who invoketh the
name of our LORD, stand aloof from iniquity.
20
But in a great house, there are not only
vessels of gold or silver, but also of wood and of
pottery; and some of them for honor, and some
for dishonor.
21
If therefore any one purge himself from these
things, he will be a pure vessel for honor, fit for
the use of his Lord, and prepared for every good
work.
22
Fly from all the lusts of youth; and follow after
righteousness, and faith, and love, and peace,
with them that invoke our Lord with a pure heart.
23
Avoid those foolish discussions which afford
no instruction; for thou knowest, that they
generate contests.
24
And a servant of our Lord ought not to
contend, but to be mild towards every one, and
instructive, and patient;
25
that with mildness he may enlighten those
who dispute against him, if perhaps God may
give them repentance, and they may
acknowledge the truth,
26
and may recollect themselves, and may
escape out of the snare of Satan, at whose
pleasure they have been held ensnared.
3:1 But this know thou, that in the latter days
hard times will come:
2 2
and men will be lovers of themselves, and
lovers of money, boasters, proud, censorious,
unyielding towards their own people, denyers of
grace, wicked,
3
calumniators, addicted to concupiscence,
ferocious, haters of the good,
4
treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to
pleasure more than to the love of God,
5
having a form of respect for God, but wide
from the power of God. Them who are such,
repel from thee.
6
For of them are they who creep into this and
that house, and captivate the women who are
plunged in sins and led away by divers lusts,
7 7
who are always learning, and can never come
to the knowledge of the truth.
8 8
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses, so also do these withstand the truth:
men whose mind is corrupted, and [they]
reprobates from the faith.
9
But they will not make progress, for their
infatuation will be understood by every one, as
theirs also was understood.
10
But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and
my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith,
and my long suffering, and my love, and my
patience,
11
and my persecution, and my sufferings. And
thou knowest what I endured at Antioch, and at
Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecution I
endured: and from all these my Lord delivered
me.
12
And likewise all, who choose to live in the
fear of God, in Jesus the Messiah, will be
persecuted.
13
But evil and seducing men will add to their
wickedness, while they deceive and are
deceived.
14
But continue thou in the things thou hast
learned and been assured of; for thou knowest
from whom thou learnedst;
15
because from thy childhood, thou wast taught
the holy books, which can make thee wise unto
life, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.
16
All scripture that was written by the Spirit, is
profitable for instruction, and for confutation, and
for correction, and for erudition in righteousness;
17
that the man of God may become perfect,
and complete for every good work.
4:1 I charge thee, before God, and our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, who is to judge the living
and the dead, at the manifestation of his
kingdom,
Proclaim the word; and persist [in it] with
diligence, in time and out of time; admonish, and
rebuke, with all patience and instructiveness.
3
For the time will come, when they will not give
ear to sound teaching; but, according to their
lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the
itching of their hearing;
4
and will turn away their ears from the truth,
and incline after fables.
5
But be thou vigilant in all things; and endure
evils, and do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill
thy ministry.
6
But I am soon to be immolated; and the time
of my dissolution hath come.
I have fought a good combat, I have
completed my race, I have preserved my fidelity;
and henceforth there is preserved for me a
crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the
righteous Judge, will recompense me in that
day; and not me only, but them also who love
his manifestation.
9
Exert thyself to come to me quickly.
10
For Demas hath left me; and hath loved this
world and gone away to Thessalonica; Crispus
to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
11
Luke only is with me. Take Mark, and bring
him with thee; for he is suitable for me, for
ministration.
12
And Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
13
And when thou comest, bring the bookcase,
which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books,
but especially the roll of parchments.
14
Alexander the coppersmith showed me many
ills: our Lord will reward him according to his
doings.
15
And do thou also beware of him; for he is
very insolent against our words.
16
At my first defence, no one was with me, but
they all forsook me. Let not this be reckoned to
them.
17
But my Lord stood by me, and strengthened
me; that by me the preaching might be fulfilled;
and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was
rescued from the mouth of the lion.
18
And my Lord will rescue me from every evil
work; and will give me life in his heavenly
kingdom. To him be glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
19
Present a salutation to Priscilla and Aquila,
and to the household of Onesiphorus.
20
Erastus hath stopped at Corinth; and
Trophimus I left sick at the city of Miletus.
21
Exert thyself to come before winter. Eubulus
saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and
Claudia, and all the brethren.
22
Our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with thy spirit.
24
Grace be with thee . Amen.

24
2 Timothy 4:22 – Eastern Peshitta reads, “with
us.”
The Epistle of Paul to Titus
1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and a legate of
Jesus the Messiah; according to the faith of the
elect of God, and the knowledge of the truth
which is in the fear of God,
2
concerning the hope of eternal life, which the
veracious God promised before the times of the
world;
3 2
and in due time he hath manifested his word,
by means of our announcement, which was
confided to me by the command of God our Life-
giver;
4 3
to Titus, a real son after the common faith:
Grace and peace from God our Father, and from
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, our Life-giver.
5
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou
mightest regulate the things deficient, and
establish elders in every city, as I directed thee:
6 5
him who is blameless, who is the husband of
one wife, and hath believing children, who are
no revellers, nor ungovernable in sensuality.
7
For an elder ought to be blameless, as the
steward of God; and not be self-willed, nor
irascible, nor excessive in wine, nor with hands
swift to strike, nor a lover of base gains.
8
But he should be a lover of strangers, and a
lover of good [deeds], and be sober, upright,
kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil
passions;
9
and studious of the doctrine of the word of
faith, that he may be able by his wholesome
teaching both to console, and to rebuke them
that are contentious.
10
For many are unsubmissive, and their
discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of
people, especially such as are of the
circumcision.
11
The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they
corrupt many families; and they teach what they
ought not, for the sake of base gains.
12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said,
The Cretans are always mendacious, evil
beasts, idle bellies.
13
And this testimony is true. Therefore chide
them sharply; that they may be sound in the
faith,
14
and may not throw themselves into Jewish
fables, and into the precepts of men who hate
the truth.
15
For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to
them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is
pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their
conscience.
16
And they profess that they know God, but in
their works they deny him; and they are odious,
and disobedient, and to every good work
reprobates.
2:1 But speak thou the things that belong to
wholesome doctrine.
And teach the older men to be watchful in their
minds, and to be sober, and to be pure, and to
be sound in the faith, and in love and in
patience.
And so also the elder women, that they be in
behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not
to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much
wine; and to be inculcators of good things,
4
making the younger women to be modest, to
love their husbands and their children,
to be chaste and holy, and to take good care
of their households, and to be obedient to their
husbands; so that no one may reproach the
word of God.
6
And likewise exhort young men to be sober.
7
And in every thing show thyself a pattern, as
to all good works: and in thy teaching, let thy
discourse be healthful,
8
such as is sober and uncorrupt; and let no one
despise it: so that he who riseth up against us,
may be ashamed, seeing he can say nothing
odious against us.
9
Let servants obey their masters in every thing,
and strive to please them, and not contradict,
nor pilfer;
10
but let them manifest that their fidelity, in all
respects, is good: so that they may adorn the
doctrine of God our Life-giver, in all things.
11
For the all-vivifying grace of God, is revealed
to all men;
12
and it teacheth us, to deny ungodliness and
worldly lusts, and to live in this world in sobriety,
and in uprightness, and in the fear of God,
13
looking for the blessed hope, and the
manifestation of the glory of the great God, and
our Life-giver, Jesus the Messiah;
14
who gave himself for us, that he might
recover us from all iniquity, and purify for himself
a new people, who are zealous in good works.
15
These things speak thou, and exhort, and
inculcate, with all authority; and let no one
despise thee.
3:1 And admonish them to be submissive and
obedient to princes and potentates; and that
they be ready for every good work;
2
and that they speak ill of no man; that they be
not contentious, but mild; and that in every thing
they manifest benignity towards all men.
3
For we also were formerly reckless, and
disobedient, and erring, and serving divers lusts,
and living in malice and envy, and were hateful
and also hating one another.
4
But when the kindness and compassion of
God our Life-giver was revealed,
5
not by works of righteousness which we had
done, but according to his mercy, he vivified us,
by the washing of the new birth, and by the
renovation of the Holy Spirit,
6
which he shed on us abundantly, by Jesus the
Messiah our Life-giver:
7
that we might be justified by his grace, and
become heirs in the hope of eternal life.
8
Faithful is the word: and in these things, I
would have thee also establish them; so that
they, who have believed in God, may be careful
to cultivate good works: these are the things,
which are good, and profitable to men.
9
But foolish questions, and stories of
genealogies, and the disputes and contests of
the scribes, avoid: for there is no profit in them,
and they are vain.
10
An heretical man, after thou hast instructed
him once and again, avoid:
11
and know thou, that such a man is perverse,
and sinful, and self-condemned.
12
When I shall send Artemas to thee, or
Tychicus, strive thou to come to me at Nicopolis;
for I have purposed to winter there.
13
As for Zenas the scribe, and Apollos,
endeavor to help them well on their way, that
they may want nothing.
14
And let our people learn also to perform good
works, on occasions of emergency, that they
may not be unfruitful.
15
All they that are with me salute thee. Salute
all them who love us in the faith. Grace be with
you all. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul to Philemon
20
1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus the Messiah, and Yes, my brother, let me be refreshed by thee
Timothy a brother;--- to the beloved Philemon, a in our Lord: refresh thou my bowels in the
laborer with us, Messiah.
2 21
and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus a Being confident that thou wilt hearken to me, I
laborer with us, and to the church in thy house. have written to thee: and I know that thou wilt do
3
Grace be with you, and peace from God our more than I say.
22
father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah. And herewith, prepare also a house for me to
4
I thank my God always, and remember thee in lodge in; for I hope that, by your prayers, I shall
my prayers, be given to you.
5 23
lo, from the time that I heard of thy faith, and Epaphras, a fellow-captive with me in Jesus
of the love thou hast towards our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, saluteth thee;
24
and towards all the saints; and Mark, and Aristarchus, and Demas, and
6
that there may be a fellowship of thy faith, Luke, my coadjutors.
25
yielding fruits in works, and in the knowledge of The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be
all the good things ye possess in Jesus the with your spirit, my brethren.---Amen.
Messiah.
7
For we have great joy and consolation,
because the bowels of the saints are refreshed
by thy love.
8
Therefore I might have great freedom in the
Messiah, to enjoin upon thee the things that are
right.
9
But for love's sake, I earnestly beseech thee---
even I, Paul, who am aged, as thou knowest,
and now also a prisoner for Jesus the Messiah.
10
I beseech thee for my son, whom I had
begotten in my bonds---for Onesimus;
11
from whom formerly thou hadst no profit, but
now very profitable will he be both to thee and to
me; and whom I have sent to thee.
12
And receive thou him, as one begotten by
me.
13
For I was desirous to retain him with me, that
he might minister to me in thy stead, in these
bonds for the gospel.
14
But I would do nothing without consulting
thee; lest thy benefit should be as if by
compulsion, and not with thy pleasure.
15
And, perhaps, also, he therefore departed
from thee for a season, that thou mightest retain
him for ever;
16
henceforth, not as a servant, but more than a
servant, a brother dear to me, and much more to
thee, both in the flesh and in our Lord?
17
If therefore thou art in fellowship with me,
receive him as one of mine.
18
And if he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee
aught, place it to my account.
19
I, Paul, have written [it] with my own hand, I
will repay:---not to say to thee, that to me thou
owest thy ownself.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
1:1 In many ways, and many forms, God
anciently conversed with our fathers, by the
prophets:
2
But in these latter days, he hath conversed
with us, by his Son; whom he hath constituted
heir of all things, and by whom he made the
worlds;
3
who is the splendor of his glory, and the image
of himself, and upholdeth all by the energy of his
word; and by himself he made a purgation of
sins, and sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high.
4
And he is altogether superior to the angels, as
he hath also inherited a name which excelleth
theirs.
5 8
For to which of the angels did God ever say,
Thou art my SON, this day have I begotten
thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and
he shall be to me a Son?
6
And again, when bringing the first begotten
into the world, he said: Let all the angels of God
worship him.
7
But of the angels he thus said: Who made his
angels a wind, and his ministers a flaming fire.
8 25
But of the Son he said: Thy throne, O God, is
for ever and ever; a righteous sceptre is the
sceptre of thy kingdom.
9
Thou hast loved rectitude, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with
the oil of gladness more than thy associates.
10
And again, Thou hast from the beginning laid
the foundations of the earth, and the heavens
are the work of thy hands:
11
they will pass away, but thou endurest; and
they all, like a robe, wax old;
12
and like a cloak, thou wilt fold them up. They
will be changed; but thou wilt be as thou art, and
thy years will not be finished.
13
And to which of the angels did he ever say:
Sit thou at my right hand, until I shall place thy
enemies a footstool under thy feet?
14
Are they not all spirits of ministration, who are
sent to minister on account of them that are to
inherit life?
2:1 Therefore we ought to be exceedingly
cautious, in regard to what we have heard, lest
we fall away.
2
For if the word uttered by the medium of
angels was confirmed, and every one who heard
it, and transgressed it, received a just retribution;
3
how shall we escape, if we despise the things
which are our life, things which began to be
spoken by our Lord, and were confirmed to us
by them who heard from him,
4
while God gave testimony concerning them,
by signs and wonders, and by various miracles
and distributions of the Holy Spirit, which were
given according to his pleasure?
5
For to the angels he hath not subjected the
world to come, of which we speak.
6
But as the scripture testifieth, and saith: What
is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son
of man, that thou attendest to him?
7
Thou hast depressed him somewhat lower
than the angels: glory and honor hast thou put
on his head; and thou hast invested him with
authority over the work of thy hand.
And all things hast thou subjected under his
feet. And in this subjecting of all things to him,
he omitted nothing, which he did not subject. But
now, we do not yet see all things subjected to
him.
9
But we see him, who was depressed
somewhat lower than the angels, to be this
Jesus, because of the passion of his death; and
glory and honor are placed on his head; for God
himself, in his grace , tasted death for all men.
10
For it became him, by whom are all things,
and on account of whom are all things, and
[who] bringeth many sons unto his glory, to
perfect the prince of their life by suffering.
11
For he that sanctifieth, and they who are
sanctified, are all of one [nature]. Therefore he is
not ashamed to call them brethren;
12
as he saith, I will announce thy name to my
brethren; in the midst of the assembly, I will
praise thee.
13
And again, I will confide in him. And again,
Behold me, and the children whom thou, God,
hast given to me.
14
For because the children participated in flesh
and blood, he also, in like manner, took part in
the same; that, by his death, he might bring to
naught him who held the dominion of death,
namely Satan;
15
and might release them, who, through fear of
death, are all their lives subject to bondage.
25
Hebrews 2:9 - So the Western Jacobite copies
read; but the Eastern Nestorian copies read, But he,
apart from God, tasted, &c.
16
For he did not assume [a nature] from angels,
but he assumed [a nature] from the seed of
26
Abraham.
17
Wherefore it was right, that he should be in all
respects like his brethren; that he might be
merciful, and a high priest faithful in the things of
God, and might make expiation for the sins of
the people.
18
For, in that he himself hath suffered, and
been tempted, he is able to succor them who
are tempted.
3:1 Wherefore, my holy brethren, who are called
with a calling that is from heaven, consider this
Legate and High Priest of our profession, Jesus
the Messiah:
2
who was faithful to him that made him, as was
Moses in all his house.
3
For much greater is the glory of this man, than
that of Moses; just as the glory of the builder of a
house, is greater than that of the edifice.
4
For every house is built by some man; but he
who buildeth all things is God.
5
And Moses, as a servant, was faithful in all the
house, for an attestation to those things that
were to be spoken by him:
6
but the Messiah as the SON, [is] over his own
house; and we are his house, if we retain unto
the end assurance, and the triumph of hope in
him.
7
Because the Holy Spirit hath said: To-day, if
ye will hear his voice,
8
harden not your hearts to anger him, like the
provocators, and as in the day of temptation in
the wilderness,
9
when your fathers tempted me, and proved,
[and] saw my works forty years.
10
Therefore I was disgusted with that
generation, and said: This is a people, whose
heart wandereth, and they have not known my
ways:
11
so that I swore in my wrath, that they should
not enter into my rest.
12
Beware, therefore, my brethren, lest there be
in any of you an evil heart that believeth not, and
ye depart from the living God.
13
But examine yourselves all the days, during
the day which is called to-day; and let none of
you be hardened, through the deceitfulness of
sin.
26
Hebrews 2:16 – This represents the Eastern
reading. The Western has “For death was not
authorized over the Angels, but over the children of
Abraham it was authorized.”
14
For we have part with the Messiah, if we
persevere in this firm confidence, from the
beginning to the end:
15
as it is said, To-day, if ye will hear his voice,
harden not your hearts, to anger him.
16
But who were they that heard, and angered
him? It was not all they, who came out of Egypt
under Moses.
17
And with whom was he disgusted forty years,
but with those who sinned, and whose
carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18
and of whom swore he, that they should not
enter into his rest, but of those who believed
not?
19
So we see that they could not enter, because
they believed not.
4:1 Let us fear, therefore, lest while there is a
firm promise of entering into his rest, any among
you should be found coming short of entering.
2
For to us also is the announcement, as well as
to them: but the word they heard did not profit
them, because it was not mingled with the faith
of those who heard it.
3
But we, who have believed, do enter into rest.
But as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath,
that they shall not enter into my rest: for lo, the
works of God existed from the foundation of the
world.
4
As he said of the sabbath, God rested on the
seventh day from all his works.
5
And here again, he said, They shall not enter
into my rest.
6
Therefore, because there was a place, whither
one and another might enter; and those earlier
persons, to whom the announcement was made,
entered not, because they believed not:
7
again he established another day, a long time
afterwards; as above written, that David said,
Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts.
8
For if Joshua, the son of Nun, had given them
rest, he would not have spoken afterwards of
another day.
9
Therefore it is established, that the people of
God are to have a sabbath.
10
For he who had entered into his rest, hath
also rested from his works, as God did from his.
11
Let us, therefore, strive to enter into that rest;
lest we fall short, after the manner of them who
believed not.
12
For the word of God is living, and all-efficient,
and sharper than a two-edged sword, and
entereth even to the severance of the soul and
the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow and
the bones, and judgeth the thoughts and
reasonings of the heart:
13
neither is there any creature, which is
concealed from before him; but every thing is
naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom
we are to give account.
14
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest,
Jesus the Messiah, the son of God, who hath
ascended to heaven; let us persevere in
professing him.
15
For we have not a high priest, who cannot
sympathize with our infirmity; but [one] who was
tempted in all respects like us, aside from sin.
16
Let us, therefore, approach with assurance to
the throne of his grace, that we may obtain
mercy, and may find grace for assistance in the
time of affliction.
5:1 For every high priest, who is from among
men, is established over the things of God, in
behalf of men, that he may present the offering
and the sacrifices for sin:
2
and he can humble himself, and sympathize
with the ignorant and the erring, because he
also is clothed with infirmity.
3
And, therefore, he is obliged as for the people,
so also for himself, to present an offering for his
sins.
4
And no one taketh this honor on himself, but
he who is called of God, as Aaron [was].
5 8
So also the Messiah did not exalt himself to
become a High Priest; but He [appointed him]
who said to him, Thou art my Son; this day have
I begotten thee.
6
As he said also in another place: Thou art a
priest for ever, after the likeness of Melchisedec.
7 10
Likewise, when he was clothed in flesh, he
presented supplication and entreaty with intense
invocation, and with tears, to him who was able
to resuscitate him from death; and he was
heard.
8
And though he was a son, yet, from the fear
and the sufferings he endured, he learned
obedience.
9
And thus he was perfected and became the
cause of eternal life to all them who obey him.
10
And he was named of God, the High Priest
after the likeness of Melchisedec.
11
Now, concerning this person, Melchisedec,
we have much discourse, which we might utter;
but it is difficult to explain it, because ye are
infirm in your hearing.
12
For ye ought to be teachers, seeing ye have
been long in the doctrine. But now ye need to
learn again the first lines of the commencement
of the oracles of God: and ye have need of milk,
and not of strong food.
13
For every one whose food is milk, is unversed
in the language of righteousness, because he is
a child.
14
But strong food belongeth to the mature who,
being investigators, have trained their faculties
to discriminate good and evil.
6:1 Therefore let us leave the commencement of
the word of the Messiah, and let us proceed to
the completion. Or will ye again lay another
foundation for the repentance which is from
dead works, and for the faith in God,
2
and for the doctrine of baptism, and for the
laying on of a hand, and for the resurrection
from the dead, and for the eternal judgment?
3
We will do this, if the LORD permit.
4
But they who have once descended to
baptism, and have tasted the gift from heaven,
and have received the Holy Spirit,
5
and have tasted the good word of God, and
the power of the world to come,
6 27
cannot again sin , and a second time be
renewed to repentance; or a second time crucify
and insult the Son of God.
7
For the earth that drinketh the rain which
cometh often upon it, and produceth the herb
that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated,
receiveth a blessing from God.
But if it should put forth thorns and briers, it
would have reprobation, and be not far from a
curse, and its end would be a burning.
9
But, in regard to you, my brethren, we are
persuaded better things, and things pertaining to
life, although we thus speak.
For God is not unrighteous, to forget your
works, and your charity which ye have shown in
his name, in that ye have ministered and do
minister to the saints.
11
And we desire, that each one of you may
show this same activity, for the completion of
your hope, even to the end:
12
and that ye faint not; but that ye be emulators
of them who by faith and patience have become
heirs of the promise.
13
For when God made the promise to
Abraham, because there was none greater than
himself by whom he could swear, he swore by
himself;
14
and said: Blessing, I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee.
27
Hebrews 6:6 - The Greek translation supposes the
Syriac in this verse to be, falling away, &c.; instead
of the proper rending, sin, &c.
15
And so he was patient, and obtained the
promise.
16
For men swear by one greater than
themselves: and in every controversy that
occurs among them, the sure termination of it is
by an oath.
17
Therefore, God, being abundantly willing to
show to the heirs of the promise, that his
promising was irreversible, bound it up in an
oath;
18
so that, by two things which change not, and
in which God cannot lie, we, who have sought
refuge in him, might have great consolation, and
might hold fast the hope promised to us;
19
which is to us as an anchor, that retaineth our
soul, so that it swerveth not; and it entereth into
that within the veil,
20
whither Jesus hath previously entered for us,
and hath become a priest for ever, after the
likeness of Melchisedec.
7:1 Now this Melchisedec was king of Salem, a
priest of the most high God: and he met
Abraham, when returning from the slaughter of
the kings; and blessed him.
2
And to him Abraham imparted tithes of all that
he had with him. Moreover his name is
interpreted king of righteousness; and again [he
is called] King of Salem, that is King of Peace.
3
Of whom neither his father nor his mother are
written in the genealogies; nor the
commencement of his days, nor the end of his
life; but, after the likeness of the Son of God, his
priesthood remaineth for ever.
4
And consider ye, how great he was; to whom
the patriarch Abraham gave tithes and first-
fruits.
5
For they of the sons of Levi who received the
priesthood, had a statute of the law, that they
should take tithes from the people; they from
their brethren, because they also are of the seed
of Abraham.
6
But this man, who is not enrolled in their
genealogies, took tithes from Abraham; and
blessed him who had received the promise.
7 27
But it is beyond controversy, that the inferior is
blessed by his superior.
8
And here, men who die, receive the tithes; but
there he of whom the scripture testifieth that he
liveth.
9
And through Abraham, as one may say, even
Levi who receiveth tithes, was himself tithed.
10
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when
he met Melchisedec.
11
If, therefore, perfection had been by means of
the priesthood of the Levites, in which the law
was enjoined on the people; why was another
priest required, who should stand up after the
likeness of Melchisedec? For it should have
said, He shall be after t
12
But as there is a change in the priesthood, so
also is there a change in the law.
13
For he of whom these things were spoken,
was born of another tribe, of which no one ever
ministered at the altar.
14
For it is manifest that our Lord arose from
Judah, from a tribe of which Moses said nothing
concerning a priesthood.
15
And moreover this is further manifest, from
his saying that another priest will stand up, after
the likeness of Melchisedec,
16
who was not according to the law of corporeal
injunctions, but according to the energy of an
indissoluble life.
17
For he testified of him: Thou art a priest for
ever, after the likeness of Melchisedec.
18
And the change which was made in the first
statute, was on account of its impotency, and
because their was no utility in it.
19
For the law perfected nothing; but in the place
of it there came in a hope, which is better than it,
and by which we draw near to God.
20
And he confirmed it to us by an oath.
21
For they became priests without an oath; but
this man by an oath. As he said to him by David:
The LORD hath sworn, and will not lie, Thou art a
priest for ever, after the likeness of Melchisedec.
22
By all this, is that a better covenant of which
Jesus is the sponsor.
23
And they as priests were numerous, because
they were mortal, and were not permitted to
continue:
24
but this man, because he standeth up for
ever, his priesthood doth not pass away:
25
and he is able to vivify for ever, them who
come to God by him; for he always liveth, and
sendeth up prayers for them.
26
For, a priest like to him, was also suitable for
us; one pure, and without evil and without stain;
one separated from sins, and exalted higher
than heaven;
and who is not obliged, every day, like the
[Aaronic] high priest, to first offer sacrifices for
his own sins, and then for the people; for this he
did once, by offering up himself.
28
For the law constituted feeble men priests;
but the word of the oath, which was subsequent
to the law [constituted] the Son perfect for ever.
8:1 Now the sum of the whole is this, we have a
High Priest, who is seated on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in heaven:
2 3
And he is the minister of the sanctuary, and of
the true tabernacle, which God hath pitched, and
not man.
3
For every high priest is established, to offer
oblations and sacrifices; and therefore, it was
proper that this one should also have something
to offer.
4 5
And if he were on earth, he would not be a
priest; because there are priests [there], who
offer oblations agreeably to the law:
5
[namely] they, who minister in the emblem and
shadow of the things in heaven: as it was said to
Moses, when he was about to build the
tabernacle, See, and make every thing
according to the pattern which was showed thee
in the mount.
6
But now, Jesus the Messiah hath received a
ministry which is better than that: as also the
covenant, of which he is made the Mediator, is
better, and is given with better promises than the
former.
7
For, if the first [covenant] had been faultless,
there would have been no place for this second
[one].
8 10
For he chideth them and saith: Behold, the
days come, saith the LORD, when I will complete
with the family of the house of Israel, and with
the family of the house of Judah, a new
covenant;
9
not like the covenant which I gave to their
fathers, in the day when I took them by the
hand, and brought them out of the land of Egypt;
[and] because they continued not in my
covenant, I also rejected them, saith the LORD.
10
But this is the covenant which I will give to the
family of the house of Israel after those days,
saith the Lord: I will put my law in their minds,
and inscribe it on their hearts; and I will be to
them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
11
And one shall not teach his fellow-citizen, nor
his brother, nor say: Know thou the LORD:
because they shall all know me, from the
youngest of them to the oldest.
12
And I will forgive them their iniquity; and their
sins will I remember no more.
13
In that he said a New [Covenant], he made
the first old; and that which is old and decaying,
is near to dissolution.
9:1 Now, under the first [covenant], there were
ordinances of ministration, and a worldly
sanctuary.
2 16
For in the first tabernacle which was erected,
there was the candlestick, and the table and the
bread of the presence; and this was called the
Sanctuary.
But the inner tabernacle, which was within the
second veil, was called the Holy of Holies.
4
And there were in it the golden censer and the
ark of the covenant, which was all over laid with
gold; and in it were the golden urn which
contained the manna and the rod of Aaron which
sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;
and over it were the cherubim of glory, which
overshadowed the mercy seat. But there is not
time to speak particularly of each of the things
which were so arranged.
6
And into the outer tabernacle the priests, at all
times, entered, and performed their ministration.
7
But into the interior tabernacle, once a year
only, the high priest entered, with the blood
which he offered for himself and for the sins of
the people.
8
And by this the Holy Spirit indicated, that the
way to the holy [places] was not yet manifested,
so long as the first tabernacle was standing:
9
and it was a symbol, for that time, during
which oblation and sacrifices were offered that
could not make perfect the conscience of him
who offered them:
but [they consisted] only in food and drink,
and in the ablutions of divers things; which were
carnal ordinances, and were set up until the time
of a reformation.
11
But the Messiah who came, was a High
Priest of the good things which he wrought: and
he entered into the great and perfect tabernacle,
which was not made with hands and was not of
these created things.
12
And he did not enter with the blood of goats
and calves; but with the blood of himself, he
entered once into the sanctuary, and obtained
eternal redemption.
13
For if the blood of goats and calves, with the
ashes of a heifer, was sprinkled upon them that
were defiled, and sanctified them as to the
purification of their flesh;
14
then how much more will the blood of the
Messiah, who by the eternal Spirit offered
himself without blemish to God, purge our
conscience from dead works, so that we may
serve the living God?
15
And for this reason he became the Mediator
of the new covenant, that he might by his death
be redemption, to them who had transgressed
the first covenant; so that they, who are called to
the eternal inheritance, might receive the
promise.
For where there is a testament, it indicateth
the death of him who made it.
17
For it is valid, only of a deceased [person];
because it hath no use, so long as the maker of
it liveth.
18
Therefore also the first [covenant] was not
confirmed without blood.
19
For when the whole ordinance had been
propounded by Moses to all the people,
according to the law; Moses took the blood of a
heifer, and water, with scarlet wool and hyssop,
and sprinkled upon the books and upon all the
people;
20
and said to them, This is the blood of the
covenant which is enjoined by God.
21
With that blood he also sprinkled upon the
tabernacle, and upon all the vessels of
ministration:
22
because every thing, according to the law, is
purified with blood: and without the shedding of
blood, there is no remission.
23
For it was necessary that these, the emblems
of heavenly things, should be purified, with those
things; but the heavenly things themselves, with
sacrifices superior to them.
24
For the Messiah entered not into the
sanctuary made with hands, which is the
emblem of the true [sanctuary]: but he entered
into heaven itself to appear in the presence of
God for us.
25
Neither [was it necessary], that he should
offer himself many times, as the high priest
entered every year into the sanctuary, with blood
not his own:
26
otherwise, he must have suffered many
times, since the commencement of the world;
but now in the end of the world, he hath once
offered himself in a self-sacrifice, to abolish sin.
27
And, as it is appointed to men, that they must
once die, and after their death is the judgment;
28
so also the Messiah was once offered; and,
by himself, he immolated the sins of many: and
a second time, without sins, will he appear for
the life of them who expect him.
10:1 For in the law there was a shadow of the
good things to come; not the substance of the
things themselves. Therefore, although the
same sacrifices were every year offered, they
could never perfect those who offered them.
2
For, if they had perfected them, they would
long ago have desisted from their offerings;
because their conscience could no more
disquiet them, who were once purified, on
account of their sins.
3 24
But in those sacrifices, they every year
recognized their sins.
4
For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot
purge away sins.
5
Therefore, when entering the world, he said: In
sacrifices and oblations, thou hast not had
pleasure; but thou hast clothed me with a body.
6
And holocausts on account of sins, thou hast
not asked.
7
Then I said: Behold I come, as it is written of
me in the beginning of the books, to do thy
pleasure, O God.
8
He first said: Sacrifices and oblations and
holocausts for sins, which were offered
according to the law, thou desiredst not;
9
and afterwards he said: Behold I come to do
thy pleasure, O God: hereby, he abolished the
former, that he might establish the latter.
10
For by this his pleasure, we are sanctified;
through the offering of the body of Jesus the
Messiah a single time.
11
For every high priest who stood and
ministered daily, offered again and again the
same sacrifices, which never were sufficient to
purge away sins.
12
But this [Priest] offered one sacrifice for sins,
and for ever sat down at the right hand of God;
13
and thenceforth waited, until his foes should
be placed as a footstool under his feet.
14
For by one offering, he hath perfected for
ever, them who are sanctified by him.
15
And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us, by
saying:
16
This is the covenant which I will give them
after those days, saith the LORD; I will put my law
into their minds, and inscribe it on their hearts;
17
and their iniquity and their sins, I will not
remember against them.
18
Now, where there is a remission of sins, there
is no offering for sin demanded.
19
We have therefore, my brethren, assurance
in entering into the sanctuary, by the blood of
Jesus, and by a way of life,
20
which he hath now consecrated for us,
through the veil, that is his flesh.
21
And we have a high priest over the house of
God.
22
Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart,
and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled
as to our hearts, and pure from an evil
conscience, and our body being washed with
pure water.
23
And let us persevere in the profession of our
hope, and not waver; for he is faithful who hath
made the promise to us.
And let us look on each other, for the
excitement of love and good works.
25
And let us not forsake our meetings, as is the
custom of some; but entreat ye one another; and
the more, as ye see that day draw near.
26
For if a man sin, voluntarily, after he hath
received a knowledge of the truth, there is no
longer a sacrifice which may be offered for sins:
27
but the fearful judgment impendeth, and the
zeal of fire that consumeth the adversaries.
28
For if he, who transgressed the law of Moses,
died without mercies, at the mouth of two or
three witnesses;
29
how much more, think ye, will he receive
capital punishment, who hath trodden upon the
Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of his
covenant, by which he is sanctified, as the blood
of all men, and hath treated the Spirit of grace
with contumely?
30
For we know him who hath said, Retribution
is mine; and I will repay: and again, The LORD
will judge his people.
31
It is very terrible, to fall into the hands of the
living God.
32
Therefore, recollect ye the former days, those
in which ye received baptism, and endured a
great conflict of sufferings, with reproach and
affliction;
33
and ye were a gazing stock, and also were
the associates of persons who endured these
things:
34
and ye were grieved for those who were
imprisoned; and ye cheerfully endured the
plundering of your goods, because ye knew that
ye had a possession in heaven, superior and not
transitory.
35
Therefore cast not away your assurance
which is to have a great reward.
36
For ye have need of patience; that ye may do
the pleasure of God, and may receive the
promise.
37
Because, yet a little,—and it is a very little
time,—when he that cometh, will come, and will
not delay.
38
Now the just by my faith, will live: but if he
draw back, my soul will not have pleasure in
him.
39
But we are not of that drawing-back, which
leadeth to perdition; but of that faith, which
maketh us possess our soul.
11:1 Now faith is the persuasion of the things
that are in hope, as if they were in act; and [it is]
the manifestness of the things not seen.
2
And for it the ancients are well testified of.
3 17
For by faith, we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God; and that things
seen, originated from those that are not seen.
4
By faith, Abel offered to God a better sacrifice
than that of Cain; and on account of it, he is
testified of that he was righteous, and God bore
testimony to his offering; and in consequence
thereof, though dead he yet speaketh.
5
By faith, Enoch was translated, and did not
taste death; and he was not found, because God
had translated him: for, before he translated him,
there was testimony of him, that he pleased
God.
6
But, without faith, a man cannot please God.
For he that draweth near to God, must believe
his existence, and that he will recompense those
who seek him.
7
By faith Noah, when he was told of things not
seen, feared; and he made himself an ark, for
the life of his household; whereby he
condemned the world, and became an heir of
the righteousness which is by faith.
8
By faith Abraham, when he was called,
obeyed, and departed to the place which he was
to receive for an inheritance: and he departed,
while he knew not whither he was going.
9
By faith, he became a resident in the land that
was promised him, as in a foreign land; and
abode in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs
with him of the same promise.
10
For he looked for the city that hath a
foundation, of which the builder and maker is
God.
11
By faith, Sarah also, who was barren,
acquired energy to receive seed; and, out of the
time of her years, she brought forth; because
she firmly believed, that he was faithful who had
promised her.
12
Therefore, from one man failing through age,
numbers were born, like the stars in the
heavens, and like the sand on the shore of the
sea which is innumerable.
13
All these died in faith, and received not their
promise; but they saw it afar off, and rejoiced in
it; and they confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth.
14
Now they who say thus, show that they seek
a city.
15
But if they had been seeking that city from
which they came out, they had opportunity to
return again and go to it.
16
But now it is manifest that they longed for a
better [city] than that, [namely,] for that which is
in heaven. Therefore God did not refuse to be
called their God; for he prepared for them the
city.
By faith Abraham, in his trial, offered up
Isaac; and he laid on the altar his only son,
whom he had received by promise.
18
For it had been said to him, In Isaac shall thy
seed be called.
19
And he reasoned with himself, that God was
able even to raise [him] from the dead: and
therefore, in the similitude [of a resurrection], he
was restored to him.
20
By faith in what was to be, Isaac blessed
Jacob and Esau.
21
By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of
the sons of Joseph, and bowed himself on the
top of his staff.
22
By faith Joseph, when dying, was mindful of
the departure of the children of Israel, and gave
direction concerning his bones.
23
By faith the parents of Moses, after he was
born, hid him three months; because they saw
he was a goodly child; and they were not
deterred by the command of the king.
24
By faith Moses, when be became a man,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter.
25
And he chose to be in affliction with the
people of God, and not to live luxuriously in sin
for a short season:
26
and he esteemed the reproach of the
Messiah a greater treasure than the hoarded
riches of Egypt; for he looked upon the
recompense of reward.
27
By faith, he left Egypt, and was not terrified
by the wrath of the king; and he continued to
hope, just as if he saw the invisible God.
28
By faith, they kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of blood, that he who destroyed the
first-born might not approach them.
29
By faith, they passed the Red Sea, as on dry
land; and in it the Egyptians were swallowed up,
when they dared to enter it.
30
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, when
they had been encompassed seven days.
31
By faith Rahab, the harlot, perished not with
them who believed not, when she received the
spies in peace.
32
What more shall I say? For I have little time to
tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Sampson,
and of Jephtha, and of David, and of Samuel,
and of the other prophets:
33
who, by faith, subdued kingdoms, and
wrought righteousness, and received promises,
and shut the mouths of lions,
34
and quenched the force of fire, and were
rescued from the edge of the sword, and were
healed of diseases, and became strong in battle,
and routed the camps of enemies,
35
and restored to women their children, by a
resurrection from the dead. And some died
under tortures, and did not hope to escape, that
there might be for them a better resurrection;
36
and others endured mockings and,
scourgings; others were delivered up to bonds
and prisons;
37
others were stoned; others were sawed;
others died by the edge of the sword; others
roamed about clothed in sheep skins and goat
skins, and were needy, and afflicted, and
agitated;
38
persons of whom the world was not worthy,
and yet they were as wanderers in the desert,
and in mountains, and in caves, and in caverns
of the earth.
39
And all these, of whose faith there is
testimony, received not the promise:
40
because God had provided the aid for us; so
that without us they should not be perfected.
12:1 Therefore let us also, who have all these
witnesses surrounding us like clouds, cast from
us all encumbrances, and sin, which is always
prepared for us; and let us run with patience the
race that is appointed for us.
2
And let us look on Jesus, who hath become
the commencement and the completion of our
faith; who, on account of the joy there was for
him, endured the cross, and surrendered himself
to opprobrium; and is seated on the right hand of
the throne of God.
3
Behold, therefore, how much he suffered from
sinners, from them who are adversaries of their
own soul, that ye may not be discouraged, nor
your soul become remiss.
4
Ye have not yet come unto blood, in the
contest against sin.
5
And ye have forgotten the monition, which
saith to you, as to children, My son, disregard
not the chastening of the LORD; nor let thy soul
faint, when thou art rebuked by him.
6
For, whom the LORD loveth, he chasteneth;
and he scourgeth those sons, for whom he hath
kind regards.
7
Therefore endure ye the chastisement;
because God is dealing with you as with sons.
For what son is there, whom his father
chasteneth not?
8
But if ye are without that chastisement, with
which every one is chastened, ye are become
strangers and not sons.
9
And if our fathers of the flesh chastened us,
and we revered them, how much more ought we
28
to be submissive to our spiritual fathers , and
live?
28
Hebrews 12:9 – Or, father
10
For they chastened us for a short time,
according to their pleasure; but God, for our
advantage, that we may become partakers of his
holiness.
11
Now all chastisement, in the time of it, is not
accounted a matter of joy, but of grief: yet,
afterwards, it yieldeth the fruits of peace and
righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
12
Wherefore, strengthen ye your relaxed
hands, and your tottering knees:
13
and make straight paths for your feet, that the
limb which is lame may not be wrenched, but
may be healed.
14
Follow after peace with every man; and after
holiness, without which a man will not see our
Lord.
15
And be careful, lest any be found among you
destitute of the grace of God; or lest some root
of bitterness shoot forth germs, and trouble you;
and thereby many be defiled:
16
or lest any one be found among you a
fornicator; or a heedless one like Esau, who for
one mess of food, sold his primogeniture.
17
For ye know that, afterwards when he wished
to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he
found not a place for repentance, although he
sought it with tears.
18
For ye have not come to the fire that burned,
and the tangible [mount]; nor to the darkness
and obscurity and tempest;
19
nor to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice
of words, which they who heard, entreated that it
might no more be spoken to them;
20
for they could not endure what was
commanded. And even a beast, if it approached
the mountain, was to be stoned.
21
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses
said, I fear and tremble.
22
But ye have come to Mount Zion, and to the
city of the living God, the Jerusalem that is in
heaven; and to the assemblies of myriads of
angels;
23
and to the church of the first-born, who are
enrolled in heaven and to God the judge of all;
and to the spirits of the just, who are perfected;
24
and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new
covenant; and to the sprinkling, of his blood,
which speaketh better than that of Abel.
25
Beware, therefore, lest ye refuse [to hear] him
who speaketh with you. For if they escaped not,
who refused [to hear] him who spake with them
on the earth, how much more shall we not, if we
refuse [to hear] him who speaketh with us from
heaven?
26
Whose voice [then] shook the earth; but now
he hath promised, and said, yet again once
more, I will shake not the earth only, but also
heaven.
27
And this his expression, Once more,
indicateth the mutation of the things that are
shaken, because they are fabricated; that the
things which will not be shaken, may remain.
28
Since, therefore, we have received a kingdom
that is unshaken, let us grasp the grace whereby
we may serve and please God, with reverence
and fear.
29
For our God is a consuming fire.
13:1 Let love for the brethren dwell among you.
2
And forget not kindness to strangers; for
thereby some have been privileged to entertain
angels, unawares.
3
And remember those in bonds, as if ye were
bound with them: and recollect those in affliction,
as being yourselves clothed in flesh.
4
Marriage is honorable in all; and their bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers,
God will judge.
5
Let not your mind love money; but let what ye
have, satisfy you. For the LORD himself hath
said, I will never leave thee, nor slacken the
hand towards thee.
6
And it belongeth to us, to say confidently, My
Lord is my aider, I will not fear. What can man
do to me?
7
Remember your guides, who have spoken to
you godly discourse; examine the issue of their
course, and imitate their faith.
8
Jesus the Messiah is the same, yesterday, to-
day, and for ever.
9
Be not led away by strange and variable
doctrines. For it is a good thing, that we
strengthen our hearts with grace, and not with
meats; for those have not been benefited, who
walked in them.
10
And we have an altar, of which they who
minister in the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11
For the flesh of those animals, whose blood
the high priest brought into the sanctuary for
sins, was burned without the camp.
12
For this reason, Jesus also, that he might
sanctify his people with his blood, suffered
without the city.
13
Therefore, let us also go forth to him, without
the camp, clothed with his reproach:
14
(for we have here no abiding city; but we
expect one that is future:)
15
and through him, let us at all times offer to
God the sacrifices of praise, that is, the fruits of
lips which give thanks to his name.
16
And forget not commiseration and
communication with the poor; for with such
sacrifices a man pleaseth God.
17
Confide in your guides, and hearken to them;
for they watch for your souls, as men who must
give an account of you, that they may do this
with joy and not with anguish; for that would not
be profitable to you.
18
Pray ye for us; for we trust we have a good
consciousness, that in all things we desire to
conduct ourselves well.
19
Especially do I request you to do this, that I
may return to you speedily.
20
May the God of peace, who brought up from
the dead the great Shepherd of the flock, by the
blood of the everlasting covenant, namely Jesus
the Messiah, our Lord,
21
make you perfect in every good work, that ye
may do his pleasure; and himself operate in you
that which is pleasing In his sight, through Jesus
the Messiah; to whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
22
And I beseech you, my brethren, that ye be
patient under this word of exhortation; for it is in
few words I have written to you.
23
And know ye, that our brother Timothy is set
at liberty: and if he come soon, I, with him, shall
see you.
24
Salute all your guides, and all the saints. All
they of Italy salute you.
25
Grace be with you all. Amen.
The Epistle of James the Legate
1:1 James, a servant of God, and of our Lord
Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes
dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting [peace].
2 22
Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye
enter into many and various trials.
3 23
For ye know, that the trial of [your] faith,
maketh you possess patience.
4
And let patience have its perfect work, so that
ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack
nothing.
5 25
And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask
[it] of God, who giveth to all freely, and
reproacheth not; and it will be given him.
6
But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who
hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the
wind agitateth.
7
And let not that man expect to receive any
thing of the LORD,
8
who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in
all his ways.
9
And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his
elevation;
10
and the rich, in his depression; because, like
the flower of an herb, so he passeth away.
11
For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up
the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of
its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man
withereth in his ways.
12
Blessed is the man who endureth
temptations; so that when he is proved he may
receive a crown of life, which God hath promised
to them that love him.
13
Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am
tempted of God: for God is not tempted with
evils, nor doth he tempt any man.
14
But every man is tempted by his own lust;
and he lusteth, and is drawn away.
15
And this [his] lust conceiveth, and bringeth
forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth
death.
16
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17
Every good and perfect gift cometh down
from above, from the Father of lights, with whom
is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.
18
He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth;
that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.
19
And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of
you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow
to wrath:
20
for the wrath of man worketh not the
righteousness of God.
21
Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity,
and the abundance of wickedness; and, with
meekness, receive the word that is implanted in
our nature, which is able to vivify these your
souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers
only; and do not deceive yourselves.
For if any man shall be a hearer of the word,
and not a doer of it, he will be like one who
seeth his face in a mirror:
24
for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and
forgetteth what a man he was.
But every one that looketh upon the perfect
law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of
something to be forgotten, but a doer of the
things; and he will be blessed in his work.
26
And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth
God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his
heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.
27
For the worship that is pure and holy before
God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and
the widows in their affliction, and that one keep
himself unspotted from the world.
2:1 My brethren, hold ye not the faith of the glory
of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, with a respect to
persons.
2
For if there come into your assembly a man
with rings of gold or splendid garments, and
there come in a poor man in sordid garments;
3
and ye show respect to him who is clothed in
splendid garments, and say to him, Seat thyself
here, conspicuously; while to the poor man, ye
say, Stand thou there, or sit thou here before my
footstool;
4
are ye not divided among yourselves, and
become expositors of evil thoughts?
5
Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God
chosen the poor of the world, but the rich in
faith, to be heirs in the kingdom which God hath
promised to them that love him?
6
But ye have despised the poor man. Do not
rich men exalt themselves over you, and drag
you before the tribunals?
7
Do they not revile that worthy name, which is
invoked upon you?
8
And if in this ye fulfill the law of God, as it is
written, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,
ye will do well:
9
but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit
sin; and ye are convicted by the law, as
transgressors of the law.
10
For he that shall keep the whole law, and yet
fail in one [precept], is obnoxious to the whole
law.
11
For he who said, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. If then
thou commit no adultery, but thou killest, thou
hast become a transgressor of the law.
12
So speak ye, and so act, as persons that are
to be judged by the law of liberty.
13
For judgment without mercy shall be on him,
who hath practised no mercy: by mercy, ye will
be raised above judgment.
14
What is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I
have faith; and he hath no works? can his faith
vivify him?
15
Or if a brother or sister be naked, and
destitute of daily food,
16
and one of you say to them, Go in peace,
warm yourselves, and be full; and ye give them
not the necessaries of the body, what is the
use?
17
So also faith alone, without works, is dead.
18
For a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I
have works; show to me thy faith that is without
works; and I will show to thee, my faith by my
works.
19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou
dost well; the demons also believe, and tremble.
20
Wouldst thou know, O frail man, that faith
without works is dead?
21
Abraham our father, was not he justified by
works, in offering his son Isaac upon the altar?
22
Seest thou, that his faith aided his works; and
that by the works his faith was rendered
complete?
23
And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith:
Abraham believed in God, and it was accounted
to him for righteousness, and he was called the
Friend of God.
24
Thou seest, that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith alone.
25
So also Rahab, the harlot, was not she
justified by works, when she entertained the
spies, and sent them forth by another way?
26
As the body without the spirit, is dead; so
faith without works, is dead also.
3:1 Let there not be many teachers among you,
my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious
to a severer judgment.
2 2
For we all offend in many things. Whoever
offendeth not in discourse, is a perfect man, who
can also keep his whole body in subjection.
3 3
Behold, we put bridles into the mouth of
horses, that they may obey us; and we turn
about their whole body.
4
Huge ships also, when strong winds drive
them, are turned about by a small timber, to
what place the pleasure of the pilot looketh.
5
So likewise the tongue is a small member, and
it exalteth itself. Also a little fire inflameth large
forests.
6
Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin
is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one
among our members, marreth our whole body;
and it inflameth the series of our generations
that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire.
7
For all natures of beasts and birds and
reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by
the nature of man.
8
But the tongue hath no one been able to tame:
it is an evil thing, not coercible, and full of deadly
poison.
9
For with it, we bless the LORD and Father; and
with it we curse men, who were made in the
image of God:
10
and from the same mouth, proceed curses
and blessings. My brethren, these things ought
not to be so.
11
Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet
waters and bitter?
12
Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives?
or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cannot be
made sweet.
13
Who is wise and instructed among you? Let
him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with
modest wisdom.
14
But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in
your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the
truth, and lie not.
15
For this wisdom cometh not down from
above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the
soul, and from demons.
16
For where envy and contention are, there
also is confusion, and every thing wrong.
17
But the wisdom which is from above, is pure,
and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and
full of compassion and of good fruits, and
without partiality, and without respect of
persons.
18
And the fruits of righteousness are sown in
stillness, by them who make peace.
4:1 Whence is it, that there are among you
fightings and broils? Is it not from the lusts,
which war in your members?
Ye covet, and possess not; and ye kill, and
envy, and effect nothing: and ye fight and make
attacks; and ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask
wickedly, that ye may pamper your lusts.
4
Ye adulterers, know ye not, that the love of the
world is hostility towards God? He therefore who
chooseth to be a lover of this world, is the
enemy of God.
5 6
Or think ye, that the scripture hath vainly said:
The spirit dwelling in us lusteth with envy?
6 7
But our Lord hath given us more grace.
Therefore he said: The Lord humbleth the lofty,
and giveth grace to the lowly.
7
Subject yourselves therefore to God; and
stand firm against Satan, and he will flee from
you.
8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to
you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: sanctify
your hearts, ye divided in mind.
9
Humble yourselves, and mourn: let your
laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy
into grief.
10
Humble yourselves before the LORD, and he
will exalt you.
11
Speak not against each other, my brethren;
for he that speaketh against his brother, or
judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law,
and judgeth the law. And if thou judgest the law,
thou art not a doer of the law, but its judge.
12
There is one Law-giver and Judge, who can
make alive, and [can] destroy: but who art thou,
that thou judgest thy neighbor?
13
But what shall we say of those, who say: To-
day or to-morrow we will go to such or such a
city, and will abide there a year; and we will
traffic, and get gain?
14
And they know not what will be to-morrow: for
what is our life, but an exhalation that is seen a
little while, and then vanisheth and is gone?
15
Whereas they should say: If the LORD please,
and we live, we will do this or that.
16
They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying
is evil.
17
He that knoweth the good, and doeth it not, to
him is sin.
5:1 O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account
of the miseries that are coming upon you.
2
For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your
garments are moth-eaten:
3 18
and your gold and your silver have contracted
rust; and the rust of them will be testimony
against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have
heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
4 20
Behold, the wages of the laborers who have
reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully
retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the
reapers hath entered the ears of the LORD of
Sabaoth.
5
For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of
slaughter.
Ye have condemned and slain the just, and
none resisted you.
But, my brethren, be ye patient until the
advent of the LORD; like the husbandman, who
waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and
is patient as to them, until he receive the early
and the latter rain.
8
So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts;
for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
9
Be not querulous one against another, my
brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment,
standeth before the door.
10
For patience in your afflictions, my brethren,
take to you the example of the prophets, who
spoke in the name of the LORD.
11
For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who
have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job; and ye have seen the result
which the LORD wrought for him: for the LORD is
merciful and compassionate.
12
But above all things, my brethren, swear ye
not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by
any other oath: but let your language be yes,
yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to
judgment.
13
And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him
pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.
14
And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of
the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint
him with oil in the name of our Lord:
15
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is
sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins
have been committed by him, they will be
forgiven him.
16
And confess ye your faults one to another,
and pray ye one for another, that ye may be
healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer
which a righteous man prayeth.
17
Elijah also was a man of sensations like us,
and he prayed that rain might not descend upon
the earth; and it descended not, for three years
and six months.
And again he prayed, and the heavens gave
rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.
19
My brethren, if one of you err from the way of
truth, and any one convert him from his error;
let him know, that he who turneth the sinner
from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul
from death, and will cover the multitude of his
sins.
The Epistle of Peter
1:1 Peter, a legate of Jesus the Messiah, to the
elect and sojourners, who are dispersed in
Pontus and in Galatia, and in Cappadocia, and
in Asia, and in Bithynia,
2
to them who have been chosen, by the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience
and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus the
Messiah: May grace and peace abound towards
you.
3
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah, who in his great mercy hath
begotten us anew, by the resurrection of our
Lord Jesus the Messiah, to the hope of life,
4
and to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled,
and unfading, which is prepared for you in
heaven;
5
while ye are kept, by the power of God and by
faith, for the life that is prepared and will be
revealed in the last times;
6
wherein ye will rejoice for ever,
notwithstanding ye at the present time are
pressed a little, by the various trials that pass
over you;
7
so that the proof of your faith may appear
more precious than refined gold that is tested by
fire, unto glory and honor and praise, at the
manifestation of Jesus the Messiah:
8
whom having not seen, ye love; and in the
faith of whom ye rejoice, with joy that is glorious
and ineffable,
9
that ye may receive the recompense of your
faith, the life of your souls;
10
that life [namely], about which the prophets
inquired, when they were prophesying of the
grace which was to be given to you.
11
And they searched for the time which the
Spirit of the Messiah dwelling in them did show
and testify, when the sufferings of the Messiah
were to occur, and his subsequent glory.
12
And it was revealed to them, [in regard to] all
they were searching, that, not for themselves
were they inquiring, but for us they were
prophesying of those things, which are now
manifested to you by means of the things we
have announced to you, by the Holy Spirit sent
from heaven; which things the angels also
desire to look into.
13
Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds.
and be awake perfectly, and wait for the joy,
which will come to you at the revelation of our
Lord Jesus the Messiah,
14
as obedient children: and be ye not
conversant again with those former lusts, with
which ye lusted when without knowledge.
15
But be ye holy in all your conduct, as he is
holy who hath called you.
16
Because it is written: Be ye holy, even as I
am holy.
17
And if so be ye call on the Father, with whom
is no respect of persons, and who judgeth every
one according to his deeds, pass the time of
your sojournment with fear;
18
since ye know, that neither with perishable
silver, nor with gold, ye were redeemed from
your vain doings, which ye had by tradition from
your fathers;
19
but with the precious blood of that Lamb in
which is no spot nor blemish, namely, the
Messiah:
20
who was predestined to this, before the
foundation of the world; and was manifested at
the termination of the times, for your sakes;
21
who, by means of him, have believed in God,
who raised him from the dead and conferred
glory on him; that your faith and hope might be
in God,
22
while your minds became sanctified, by
obedience to the truth; and ye be full of love,
without respect of persons, so that ye love one
another out of a pure and perfect heart;
23
like persons born again, not of seed that
perisheth, but of that which doth not perish, by
the living word of God, who abideth for ever.
24
Because all flesh is as grass, and all its
beauty like the flower of the field. The grass
drieth up, and the flower withereth away;
25
but the word of our God abideth for ever: and
this is the word that is announced to you.
2:1 Therefore, cease ye from all malice, and all
guile, and hypocrisy, and envy, and backbiting.
2
And be like infant children; and crave the
word, as being the pure spiritual milk by which
ye are nourished up to life;
3
if ye have tasted and seen that the LORD is
good:
4
to whom ye have come, because he is a living
stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God
elect and precious.
5
And ye also, as living stones, are builded and
become spiritual temples, and holy priests, for
the offering of spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
before God, through Jesus the Messiah.
6 23
For it is said in the scripture, Behold, in Zion I
lay a chosen and precious stone, for the head of
the corner; and whoever believeth in him, will
not be ashamed.
7
On you therefore who believe, is this honor
conferred: but to them who believe not,
8
he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of
offence. And they stumble at it, because they
believe not the word: whereto they were
appointed.
9
But ye are an elect race, officiating as priests
of the kingdom; a holy people, a redeemed
congregation; that ye should proclaim the
praises of him who called you out of darkness to
his precious light:
10
who formerly were not accounted a people,
but now are the people of God; and also, there
were [once] no mercies on you, but now mercies
are poured out upon you.
11
My beloved, I entreat you as strangers and
pilgrims, separate yourselves from all lusts of
the body; for they war against the soul.
12
And let your behavior be decorous before all
men; so that they who utter evil speeches
against you, may see your good actions, and
may praise God in the day of trial.
13
And be ye submissive to all the sons of men,
for God's sake; to kings, on account of their
authority;
14
and to judges, because they are sent by him
for the punishment of offenders, and for the
praise of them that do well.
15
For so is the pleasure of God, that by your
good deeds ye may stop the mouth of the
foolish, who know not God:
16
as free men, yet not like men who make their
freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the
servants of God.
17
Honor all men; love your brethren; fear God;
and honor kings.
18
And those among you who are servants, be
subject to your masters, with reverence; not only
to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh and
morose.
19
For there is favor before God for them who,
for the sake of a good conscience, endure
sorrows that come upon them wrongfully.
20
But they who endure afflictions on account of
their offences, what praise have they? But if,
when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it;
then great is your praise with God.
21
For unto this were ye called; because the
Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern,
that ye should walk in his steps.
22
He did no sin; neither was guile found in his
mouth.
When he was reviled, he reviled not; and he
suffered and threatened not, but committed his
cause to the Judge of righteousness.
24
And he took away all our sins, and, in his
body, lifted them to the cross; that we, when
dead to sin, might live by his righteousness: for
by his wounds, ye are healed.
25
For ye, [once] went astray, like sheep; but ye
have now returned to the Shepherd and Curator
of your souls.
3:1 So also ye wives, be ye subject to your
husbands; that, by your pleasing behavior, ye
may gain over, without difficulty, those who obey
not the word,
2
when they see, that ye conduct yourselves
with reverence and chastity.
3
And adorn not yourselves with the external
ornaments of curls of the hair, or of golden
trinkets, or of costly garments.
4
But adorn yourselves in the hidden person of
the heart, with a mild and uncorrupted spirit, an
ornament that is precious before God.
5
For so also the holy women of old, who trusted
in God, adorned themselves, and were subject
to their husbands:
6
just as Sarah was subject to Abraham, and
called him, My lord: whose daughters ye are, by
good works, while ye are not terrified by any
fear.
7
And ye husbands, likewise, dwell with your
wives according to knowledge, and hold them in
honor, as the feebler vessels; because they also
will inherit with you the gift of eternal life: and let
not your prayers be hindered.
8
The summing up, is, that ye all be in harmony,
that ye be sympathetic with them who suffer,
and affectionate one to another, and be merciful
and kind.
9
And that ye recompense to no one evil for evil,
neither railing for railing; but, in contrariety to
these, that ye bless: for to this were ye called,
that ye might inherit a blessing.
10
Therefore, whoever chooseth life, and
desireth to see good days, let him keep his
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile;
11
let him turn away from evil, and do good; let
him seek peace, and follow after it.
12
Because the eyes of the LORD are upon the
righteous, and his ears [ready] to hear them: but
the face of the Lord is against the wicked.
13
And who will do you harm, if ye are zealous
of good works?
14
But if it should occur, that ye suffer on
account of righteousness, happy are ye. And be

not terrified, by those who would terrify you, nor
be agitated:
15
but sanctify the LORD the Messiah, in your
hearts. And be ye ready for a vindication, before
every one who demandeth of you an account of
the hope of your faith,
16
in meekness and respect, as having a good
conscience; so that they who speak against you
as bad men, may be ashamed, for having
calumniated your good conduct in the Messiah.
17
For it is profitable to you, that ye suffer evil
while ye do good deeds, if this should be the
pleasure of God; and not, while ye do evil
deeds.
18
For the Messiah also once died for our sins,
the righteous for sinners; that he might bring you
to God. And he died in body, but lived in spirit.
19
And he preached to those souls, which were
detained in Hades,
20
which were formerly disobedient, in the days
of Noah, when the long suffering of God
commanded an ark to be made, in hope of their
repentance; and eight souls only entered into it,
and were kept alive in the waters.
21
And ye also, by a like figure, are made alive
by baptism, (not when ye wash your bodies from
filth, but when ye confess God with a pure
conscience,) and by the resurrection of Jesus
the Messiah;
22
who is taken up to heaven, and is on the right
hand of God, and angels, and authorities, and
powers, are subject to him.
4:1 If then the Messiah hath suffered for you in
the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the
same mind: for every one that is dead in his
body, hath ceased from all sins,
2
that he may no longer be alive to the lusts of
men, while he is in the body, but [only] to do the
pleasure of God.
3
For the time that is past was enough, when ye
wrought the pleasure of the profane, in
dissoluteness, and in ebriety, and in
lasciviousness, and in revelling, and in the
worship of demons.
4
And lo, they now wonder, and reproach you,
because ye revel not with them in the same
former dissoluteness;
5 3
who must give account to God, who is to judge
the living and the dead.
6 4
For on this account the announcement is
made also to the dead, that they may be judged
as persons in the flesh, and may live according
to God in the spirit.
7
But the end of all things approacheth:
therefore be sober, and be wakeful for prayer.
8
And above all things, have fervent love one
towards another; for love covereth a multitude of
sins.
9
And be ye compassionate to strangers,
without murmuring.
10
And let each of you minister to his associates
the gift which he hath received from God; as
being good stewards of the manifold grace of
God.
11
Whoever will speak, let him speak as the
word of God: and whoever will minister, as of the
ability that God hath given him: so that in all ye
do, God may be glorified, through Jesus the
Messiah; to whom belongeth glory, and honor,
for ever and ever. Amen.
12
My beloved, be not dismayed at the trials that
befall you, as if some strange thing had come
upon you; for these things are for your
probation.
13
But rejoice, that ye participate in the
sufferings of the Messiah, that so ye may also
rejoice and exult at the revelation of his glory.
14
And if ye are reproached on account of the
name of the Messiah, happy are ye: for the
glorious Spirit of God resteth upon you.
15
Only let none of you suffer, as a murderer, or
as a thief, or as an evil-doer.
16
But if he suffer as a Christian, let him not be
ashamed; but let him glorify God on account of
this name.
17
For it is the time when judgment will
commence with the house of God: and if it
commence with us, what will be the end of those
who obey not the gospel of God?
18
And if the righteous scarcely liveth, where will
the ungodly and the sinner be found!
19
Wherefore, let them who suffer according to
the pleasure of God, commend their souls to him
in well doing, as to a faithful Creator.
5:1 And I, an Elder, your associate, and a
witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and a
participator in his glory which is to be revealed,
entreat the Elders who are among you:
2
Feed ye the flock of God which is committed
to you: have care [for it], spiritually; not from
compulsion, but voluntarily; not for base gain,
but with all your heart;
not as lords of the flock, but so as to be a
good example for them:
that when the chief shepherd shall be
revealed, ye may receive from him a crown of
glory that fadeth not.
5
And ye juniors submit yourselves to your
seniors; and clothe yourselves, stringently, with
lowliness of mind one towards another; because
God resisteth them who exalt themselves, and
giveth grace to the humble.
6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the
powerful hand of God: and it will exalt you in due
time.
7
And cast all your solicitude upon God; for he
careth for you.
8
Be sober and guarded, because Satan your
adversary, like a lion, roareth, and goeth about,
and seeketh whom he may devour.
9
Therefore resist him, being steadfast in the
faith: and know ye, that the same sufferings
befall your brethren that are in the world.
10
Now it is the God of grace, who hath called
us to his eternal glory by Jesus the Messiah,
that hath given us, while we sustain these light
afflictions, to be strengthened, and confirmed,
and established by him for ever:
11
to whom be glory, and power, and honor, for
ever and ever. Amen.
12
These as I account [them] few [things], I have
written to you by Sylvanus, a faithful brother.
And I would persuade, and would testify, that
this is the true grace of God, this in which ye
stand.
13
The elect church which is in Babylon, saluteth
you; also Mark, my son.
14
Salute ye one another with a holy kiss. Peace
be with you all, who are in the Messiah. Amen.
The Second Epistle of Peter
1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and legate of Jesus
the Messiah, to those who have obtained
equally precious faith with us, through the
righteousness of Our Lord and Redeemer,
Jesus the Messiah;
2
May grace and peace abound to you through
the recognition of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
3 18
as the giver to us of all things that be of the
power of God, unto life and the fear of God,
through the recognition of him who hath called
us unto his own glory and moral excellence:
4
wherein he hath given you very great and
precious promises; that by them ye might
become partakers of the nature of God, while ye
flee from the corruptions of the lusts that are in
the world.
5 29
And, while ye apply all diligence in the matter,
add to your faith moral excellence; and to moral
excellence, knowledge;
6
and to knowledge, perseverance; and to
perseverance, patience; and to patience, the
fear of God;
7
and to the fear of God, sympathy with the
brotherhood; and to sympathy with the
brotherhood, love.
8
For, while these are found in you, and
abounding, they render you not slothful, and not
unfruitful, in the recognition of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah.
9 3
For he, in whom these things are not found, is
blind and seeth not, and hath forgotten the
purgation of his former sins.
10
And therefore, my brethren, be ye
exceedingly diligent to make your calling and
election sure, by your good actions: for, by so
doing, ye will never fall away.
11
For thus will entrance be given you
abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah.
12
And for this reason I am not wearied in
reminding you continually of these things;
although ye know them well, and are established
in this truth.
13
And it seemeth right to me, so long as I am in
this body, to excite you by monition;
14
since I know, that the demise of my body is
speedy, as also my Lord Jesus the Messiah
hath showed me.
15
And I am anxious, that, after my departure, ye
too may have it always with you to make
mention of these things.
16
For we have not gone after fables artfully
framed, in making known to you the power and
advent of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; but [it
was] after we had been spectators of his
majesty.
17
For, when he received from God the Father
honor and glory, and, after the splendid glory of
his majesty, a voice came to him thus: This is
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;
we also heard this identical voice from
heaven, which came to him while we were with
him in the holy mount.
19
And we have moreover a sure word of
prophecy; and ye will do well, if ye look to it as to
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day
shall dawn, and the sun shall arise in your
hearts;
20
ye having the previous knowledge, that no
prophecy is an exposition of its own text.
21
For at no time was it by the pleasure of man,
that the prophecy came; but holy men of God
spoke, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
2:1 But in the world, there have been also false
prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers
among you, who will bring in destructive
heresies, denying the Lord that bought them;
thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2
And many will go after their profaneness; on
account of whom, the way of truth will be
reproached.
And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will
make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a
long time, is not idle; and their destruction
slumbereth not.
4
For, if God spared not the angels that sinned,
but cast them down to the infernal regions in
chains of darkness, and delivered them up to be
kept unto the judgment of torture,
5
and spared not the former world, but
preserved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness, when he brought a flood on the
world of the wicked;
6
[and] burned up the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and condemned them by an
overthrow, making them a demonstration to the
wicked who should come after them;
7
and also delivered righteous Lot, who was
tormented with the filthy conduct of the lawless;
29
2 Peter 1:20 - The Greek of this difficult passage
gives the interpretation, that no prophecy explains
itself, and consequently cannot well be understood,
until its fulfillment shall make it clear.
8
for that upright man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing from day to day, was
distressed in his righteous soul by their lawless
deeds;
9
the LORD knoweth how to rescue from
afflictions those who fear him; and he will
reserve the wicked for the day of judgment to be
tormented,
10
and especially them who go after the flesh in
the lusts of pollution, and despise government.
Daring and arrogant, they shudder not with awe
while they blaspheme;
11
whereas angels, greater than they in might
and valor, bring not against them a reproachful
30
denunciation.
12
But these, like the dumb beasts that by
nature are for slaughter and corruption, while
reviling the things they know not, will perish in
their own corruption;
13
they being persons with whom iniquity is the
reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the
daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full
of spots [are they], indulging themselves at their
ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure;
14
having eyes that are full of adultery, and sins
that never end; seducing unstable souls; and
having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of
malediction:
15
and, having left the way of rectitude, they
have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam
the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,
16
and who had for the reprover of his
transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with
the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the
prophet.
17
These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the
blackness of darkness.
18
For, while they utter astonishing vanity, they
seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them
who have almost abandoned these that walk in
error.
19
And they promise them liberty, while they
themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by
whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is
he enslaved.
20
For if, when they have escaped the pollutions
of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and
Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become
again involved in the same, and are vanquished,
their latter state is worse than the former.
21
For it would have been better for them, not to
have known the way of righteousness, than after
30
2 Peter 2:11 – Some mss. add “from the LORD.”
having known [it], to turn back from the holy
commandment that was delivered to them.
22
But the true proverb hath happened to them:
the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that
was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
3:1 This second epistle, my beloved, I now write
to you; in [both of] which I stir up your honest
mind by admonition:
2
that ye may be mindful of the words which
were formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and
of the injunction of our Lord and Redeemer by
the hand of the legates:
3
knowing this previously, that there will come in
the last days scoffers, who will scoff, walking
according to their own lusts;
4
and saying, Where is the promise of his
coming? for, since our fathers fell asleep, every
thing remaineth just as from the beginning of the
creation.
5
For this they willingly forget, that the heavens
were of old; and the earth rose up from the
waters, and by means of water, by the word of
God.
6
[And], by means of these [waters], the world
which then was, [being submerged] again
perished in the waters.
7
And the heavens that now are, and the earth,
are by his word stored up, being reserved for the
fire at the day of judgment and the perdition of
wicked men.
8
And of this one thing, my beloved, be not
forgetful, That one day, to the LORD, is as a
thousand years; and a thousand years, as one
day.
9
The LORD doth not procrastinate his promises,
as some estimate procrastination; but he is long
suffering, for your sakes, being not willing that
any should perish, but that every one should
come to repentance.
10
And the day of the LORD will come, like a
thief; in which the heavens will suddenly pass
away; and the elements, being ignited, will be
dissolved; and the earth and the works in it, will
not be found.
11
As therefore all these things are to be
dissolved, what persons ought ye to be, in holy
conduct, and in the fear of God,
12
expecting and desiring the coming of the day
of God, in which the heavens being tried by fire
will be dissolved, and the elements being ignited
will melt?
13
But we, according to his promise, expect new
heavens, and a new earth, in which
righteousness dwelleth.
14
Therefore, my beloved, as ye expect these
things, strive that ye may be found by him in
peace, without spot and without blemish.
15
And account the long suffering of the LORD to
be redemption; as also our beloved brother
Paul, according to the wisdom conferred on him,
wrote to you;
16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these things, in which there is something difficult
to be understood; [and] which they who are
ignorant and unstable, pervert, as they do also
the rest of the scriptures, to their own
destruction.
17
Ye therefore, my beloved, as ye know [these
things] beforehand, guard yourselves, lest, by
going after the error of the lawless, ye fall from
your steadfastness.
18
But be ye growing in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the
Messiah, and of God the Father: whose is the
glory, now, and always, and to the days of
eternity. Amen.
The Epistle of John the Legate
1:1 We announce to you that, which was from
the beginning, which we have heard, and have
seen with our eyes, looked upon, and handled
with our hands, that which is the word of life.
2 9
And the life was manifested, and we have
seen and do testify and announce to you, the life
which is eternal; which was with the Father, and
was revealed to us.
3
And what we have seen and heard, we make
known to you also, that ye may have fellowship
with us; and our fellowship is with the Father,
and with his Son Jesus the Messiah.
4
And these things we write to you, that our joy
in you may be complete.
5
And this is the announcement, which we have
heard from him and declare to you, that God is
light, and no darkness at all is in him.
6
And if we say that we have fellowship with
him, and we walk in the darkness, we are liars,
and walk not in the truth.
7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship with each other and the
blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all our
sins.
8
And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 15
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and
righteous, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse
us from all our iniquity.
10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make
him a liar, and his word is not with us.
2:1 My children, these things I write to you, that
ye sin not. But if any one should sin, we have an
Advocate with the Father, Jesus the Messiah,
the righteous.
2 18
For he is himself the propitiation for our sins;
and not for ours only, but also for all the world.
3
And by this we shall be sensible that we know
him, if we keep his commandments.
4 19
For he that saith, I know him, and doth not
keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth
is not in him.
5
But he that keepeth his word, in him is the love
of God truly completed: for by this we know that
we are in him.
6
He that saith, I am in him, is bound to walk
according to his walkings.
7
My beloved, I write no new commandment to
you, but the old commandment which ye had
from the beginning; and the old commandment
is the word, which ye have heard.
8
Again, a new commandment I write to you,
which is true in him and in you; because the
darkness hath passed away, and the true light
beginneth to appear.
Whoever therefore shall say that he is in the
light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness until
now.
10
He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light,
and in him is no stumbling.
11
But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness,
and walketh in darkness; and he knoweth not
whither he goeth, because the darkness hath
blinded his eyes.
12
I write to you, ye children, because your sins
are forgiven you for his name's sake.
13
I write to you, ye fathers, because ye have
known him who existed from the beginning. I
write to you, ye young men, because ye have
vanquished the evil one.
14
I have written to you, ye little ones, because
ye have known the Father. I have written to you,
ye fathers, because ye have known him who
[was] from the beginning, I have written to you,
ye young men, because ye are strong, and the
word of God dwelleth in you, and ye have
vanquished the evil one.
Love not the world, nor any thing in it; for
whoever loveth the world, hath not the love of
the Father in him.
16
For all that is in the world, is, the lust of the
body, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
the world; which are not from the Father, but
from the world itself.
17
And the world is passing away, [both] it and
the lust thereof; but he that doeth the pleasure of
God, abideth for ever.
My children, it is the latter time; and as ye
have heard that a false Messiah was to arise, so
there are now many false Messiahs; and from
this we know that it is the latter time.
From us they went out, but they were not of
us; for if they had been of us, they would have
continued with us: but they went out from us,
that so it might be known, that they were not of
us.
20
But ye have an unction from the Holy [One];
and ye discriminate every person.
21
I have not written to you, because ye know
not the truth, but because ye know it, and
because no falsehood is of the truth.
22
Who is false, but he that denieth that Jesus is
the Messiah? And that person is a false
Messiah. He that denieth the Father, denieth
also the Son.
23
And he that denieth the Son, also believeth
not the Father. He that confesseth the Son,
confesseth also the Father.
24
And what ye heard from the first, let that
remain with you. For if that, which ye heard from
the first, remaineth with you, ye also will remain
in the Father and in the Son.
25
And this is the promise, which he hath
promised us, [even] life eternal.
26
And these things I have written to you, on
account of those who seduce you.
27
And ye also, if the unction which ye have
received from him remaineth in you, need not
that any one should teach you; but as that
unction is from God, it teacheth you all things;
and it is true, and no falsehood is in it. And as it
hath taught you, remain ye in him.
28
And now, my children, remain ye in him; that
so, when he shall be manifested, we may not be
ashamed before him, but may have an open
countenance at his coming.
29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye also know,
that whoever doeth righteousness, is from him.
3:1 And ye see, how great is the love of the
Father towards us, who hath called us sons, and
made us [such]. Therefore the world knoweth us
not, because it likewise knoweth him not.
2
My beloved, now are we the sons of God; and
hitherto, it hath not appeared what we are to be:
but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be in his likeness, and we shall see him as
he is.
3
And every one that hath this hope from him,
purifieth himself, as he is pure.
4
And every one that practiseth sin, perpetrateth
iniquity; for all sin is iniquity.
5
And ye know, that he was manifested to take
away our sins; and in him was no sin.
6
And every one that abideth in him, sinneth not:
and every one that sinneth, hath not seen him,
nor hath known him.
7
My children, let no one deceive you: he that
doeth righteousness, is righteous, as the
Messiah also is righteous.
8
And he that committeth sin, is of Satan;
because Satan was a sinner from the beginning:
and for this cause, the Son of God appeared,
that he might destroy the works of Satan.
9
Every one that is born of God, doth not
practise sin; because his seed is in him, and he
cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10
By this are the children of God discriminated
from the children of Satan. Every one that
practiseth not righteousness, and that loveth not
his brother, is not of God:
11
because this is the commandment, which ye
heard from the beginning, that ye should love
one another.
12
Not like Cain, who was of the evil one, and
slew his brother. And why did he slay him, but
because his own works were evil, and those of
his brother righteous?
13
And wonder not, my brethren, if the world
hate you.
14
We know that we have turned from death
unto life, by this, that we love the brethren. He
that loveth not his brother, remaineth in death.
15
For every one that hateth his brother, is a
man-slayer; and ye know, that no man-slayer
can have eternal life abiding in him.
16
By this we know his love towards us, because
he gave up his life for us: and we also ought to
give up our lives for our brethren.
17
But whoever hath worldly possessions, and
seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his
bowels from him, how is the love of God in him?
18
My children, let us not love one another in
words and in tongue, but in acts and in truth.
19
And by this, we recognize that we are of the
truth; and, before he shall come, we make our
hearts confident.
20
But if our heart condemneth us, how much
greater is God than our heart, and knowing all
things?
21
My beloved, if our heart condemneth us not,
we have open countenances before God.
22
And whatever we ask, we receive from him;
because we keep his commandments, and do
acceptable things before him.
23
And this is his commandment, that we believe
on the name of his Son Jesus the Messiah, and
that we love one another as he hath
commanded us.
24
And he that keepeth his commandments, is
kept by him, and he dwelleth in him: and by this
we understand that he abideth in us, from his
Spirit which he hath given to us.
4:1 My beloved, believe not all spirits; but
discriminate among spirits, whether they are of
God: for many false prophets have gone out into
the world.
2
By this the Spirit of God is known, every spirit
that confesseth that Jesus the Messiah hath
come in the flesh, is of God.
3
And every spirit which confesseth not that
Jesus the Messiah hath come in the flesh, is not
of God; but he is of the false Messiah, of whom
ye have heard that he cometh, and now is he
already in the world.
4
But ye children, are of God; and ye have
overcome them, because greater is he who is in
you, than he who is in the world.
5
And they are of the world: therefore they
speak from the world, and the world heareth
them.
6
But we are of God; and he that knoweth God,
heareth us; and he that is not of God, heareth us
not. By this, we know the spirit of truth, and the
spirit of error.
7 5
My beloved, let us love one another: because
love is from God; and whoever loveth, is born of
God and knoweth God.
8
Because God is love; and whoever loveth not,
doth not know God.
9
By this was the love of God towards us made
known, because God sent his only-begotten Son
into the world, that we by him might live.
10
In this is love; it was not that we loved God,
but that God loved us, and sent his Son a
propitiation for our sins.
11
My beloved, if God hath so loved us, we also
ought to love one another.
12
No one hath ever seen God; but if we love
one another, God abideth in us, and his love is
perfected in us.
13
And by this we know, that we abide in him
and that he abideth in us, because he hath given
of his Spirit to us.
14
And we have seen, and do testify, that the
Father hath sent his Son, a Redeemer for the
world.
15
Whoever confesseth Jesus to be the Son of
God, God abideth in him, and he abideth in God.
16
And we have believed and known the love,
which God hath towards us: for God is love, and
whoever abideth in love, abideth in God.
17
And hereby is his love perfected with us; that
we may have open countenances in the day of
judgment; because as he was, so also are we in
this world.
18
In love there is no fear; but perfect love
casteth out fear; because fear existeth in peril,
and he that feareth is not perfected in love.
19
Let us, therefore, love God; because he hath
first loved us.
20
And if any one shall say, I love God, and yet
hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth
not his brother who is visible, how can he love
God who is invisible?
21
And this command we have received from
him, that whoever loveth God, must love also his
brother.
5:1 Whoever believeth that Jesus is the
Messiah, is born of God. And whoever loveth the
begetter, loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2
And by this we know, that we love the children
of God, when we love God, and follow his
commandments.
3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are
not burdensome.
4
Because, whoever is born of God, overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that overcometh
the world, our faith.
For who is he that overcometh the world, but
he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6
This is he who came by the water and the
blood. Jesus the Messiah; not by the water only,
but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit
testifieth; because the Spirit is truth.
7
[For there are three that testify in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these
31
three are one.]
8
And there are three witnesses, the Spirit, and
the water, and the blood: and these three are in
union.
9
If we receive the testimony of men, how much
greater is the testimony of God? And this is the
testimony of God, which he hath testified
concerning his Son.
10
Whoever believeth in the Son of God, hath
this testimony in himself. And whoever believeth
not God, hath made him a liar, by not believing
the testimony which God hath testified
concerning his Son.
11
And this is the testimony, that God hath given
to us life eternal, and this life is in his Son.
12
Every one that taketh hold of the Son, taketh
hold of life; and every one that taketh not hold of
the Son, hath not life.
13
These things have I written to you, that ye
may know that ye have life eternal, ye who
believe in the name of the Son of God.
14
And this is the confidence that we have
towards him, that whatever we ask of him,
agreeably to his will, he heareth us.
15
And if we are persuaded that he heareth us
respecting what we ask of him, we are confident
of receiving presently the petitions which we
asked of him.
16
If any one shall see his brother sin a sin
which doth not deserve death, he shall ask, and
life will be given him, to them [I say] who sin not
as unto death. For there is a sin of death; and I
do not say of this, that a man should pray for it.
31
1 John 5:7 - This verse is wanting in most MSS.,
and is omitted in the edit. London, 1826.
17
For all iniquity is sin; and there is a sin which
is not of death.
18
And we know, that every one who is born of
God, sinneth not: for he that is born of God
keepeth himself, and the evil one toucheth him
not.
19
We know, that we are of God; and all the
world is reposing on the evil one.
20
And we know that the Son of God hath come,
and hath given us knowledge that we might
know the True One; and that we might be in the
True One, in his Son Jesus the Messiah. He is
the true God, and the life eternal.
21
My children, keep yourselves from idolatry.
The Second Epistle of John
1:1 The Elder, to Kuria the elect, and to her
children: whom I love in the truth, and not I only,
but all they who know the truth;
2
for the sake of the truth, which abideth in us
and is with us for ever.
3
May grace be with you, and mercy, and
peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in
truth and love.
4
I have rejoiced greatly, that I found [some] of
thy children, who walked in the truth, as we have
received commandment from the Father.
5
And now, I beseech thee, Kuria, (I write no
new commandment to thee, but that which was
with us from the beginning,) that we should love
one another.
6
And this is love, that we walk according to the
commandment. This is the commandment, as ye
have heard from the beginning, that we should
walk in it.
7
Because many seducers have gone forth into
the world, who confess not that Jesus the
Messiah hath come in the flesh. This is a
seducer and Antichrist.
8
Take heed to yourselves, that ye lose not what
ye have wrought; but that ye may be
recompensed with a full reward.
9
Every one who transgresseth, and abideth not
in the doctrine of the Messiah, God is not in him.
And he who abideth in his doctrine, he hath the
Father and the Son.
10
If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not
this doctrine, entertain him not in your house,
nor say to him, Joy to thee:
11
for he that saith to him, Joy to thee, is a
participator in his evil deeds.
12
Having many things I could write to you, I
would not with paper and ink; but I hope to come
to you, and to converse mouth to mouth, that our
joy may be complete.
13
The children of thy elect sister salute thee.
Grace be with you. Amen.
The Third Epistle of John
1:1 The Elder, to my beloved Gaius, whom I
love in the truth.
2
Our beloved; in all things, I pray for thee that
thou mayest prosper and be in health, as thy
soul doth prosper.
3
For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came
and testified concerning thy integrity, even as
thou walkest in the truth.
4
And I have no greater joy, than to hear that my
children walk in the truth.
5
Our beloved, thou doest in faith, what thou
performest towards the brethren; and especially
towards strangers,
6
who have borne testimony to thy charity
before the whole church, to whom thou doest
good, as is pleasing to God.
7
For they went forth in behalf of his name,
taking nothing of the Gentiles.
8
We therefore ought to receive such persons,
that we may be aiders of the truth.
9
I was desirous of writing to the church; but he
who loveth to be foremost among them,
Diotrephes, receiveth us not.
10
Therefore, if he come, remember those his
doings, that he treated us with malignant words;
and this not sufficing him, he received not the
brethren; and those who would receive [them],
he prohibited, and even ejected them from the
church.
11
Our beloved, be not a follower of what is evil,
but of what is good. He that doeth good, is of
God; but he that doeth evil, hath not seen God.
12
Of Demetrius, there is good testimony from
every one, and from the church, and from the
truth itself: and we also bear [him] testimony,
and ye know that our testimony is true.
13
I had many things to write to thee; but I will
not write [them] to thee with ink and pen.
14
But I hope soon to see thee, and to converse
mouth to mouth.
15
Peace be with thee. The friends salute thee.
Salute the friends, severally, by name.
The Epistle of Jude, the Brother of James
1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, and
the brother of James, to the called people, the
beloved of God the Father, the preserved by
Jesus the Messiah:
2
Mercy and peace in love, be multiplied to you.
3 15
My beloved, while I take all pains to write to
you of our common life, it is needful for me to
write to you, exhorting you to maintain a conflict
for the faith which was once delivered to the
saints.
4 16
For some have obtained entrance, who from
the beginning were registered beforehand under
this condemnation: wicked men, who pervert the
grace of God to impurity, and deny him who is
the only Lord God and our Lord, Jesus the
Messiah.
5
And I wish to remind you, though ye all know
it, that God, after once rescuing the people from
Egypt, again destroyed them who believed not.
6
And the angels that kept not their primacy, but
left their station, he hath reserved in chains
unknown, under darkness, unto the judgment of
the great day.
7
As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the
surrounding cities, which in like manner followed
whoredom and went after strange flesh, are
placed beneath everlasting fire, being, doomed
to judgment.
8 23
In the same manner, too, these sensual
dreamers defile the flesh and despise authority,
and revile excellency.
9 24
But Michael the archangel, who, in debate with
the Accuser, contended about the body of
Moses, did not venture to bring against him a
reviling declaration; but said, The LORD will
rebuke thee.
10
But these [men] revile things which they do
not understand; and in the things of which they
have a natural persuasion as animal beings, in
these they corrupt themselves.
11
Woe to them; for they have gone in the way
of Cain; and, after the error of Balaam, they
have lusted for gain; and, in the rebellion of
Korah, they have perished.
12
These are they who, in their feastings, riot
while polluting themselves, feeding themselves
without fear; clouds without rain, moved about
by the winds; trees whose fruit hath failed, and
they are without fruit, twice dead, and uplifted
from their root;
13
raging waves of the sea, which, by their foam,
manifest their confusion; shooting­stars, for
which is reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever.
14
And of them also prophesied Enoch, who was
the seventh from Adam, when he said: Behold,
the LORD cometh, with myriads of his saints;
to execute judgment upon all; and to convict
all the wicked, because of all the deeds they
have wickedly committed; and because of all the
hard speeches, which they, ungodly sinners,
have uttered.
These are they who murmur and complain of
every thing, while they walk according to their
lusts; and their mouth speaketh shocking things;
and they flatter people, for the sake of gain.
17
But do ye, my beloved, remember the words
which were before spoken by the legates of our
Lord Jesus the Messiah;
18
because they told you, that in the end of the
times there would be scoffers, going after
wickedness, according to their lusts.
19
These are they that separate [themselves],
sensual persons, not having the Spirit.
20
But, my beloved, be ye built up anew, in your
holy faith, through the Holy Spirit, while ye pray.
21
And let us keep ourselves in the love of God,
while we wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah unto our eternal life.
22
And some of them, snatch ye from the fire.
And when they repent, have compassion on
them, with fear, hating even the tunic that is
defiled by the flesh.
And to him who is able to preserve you
faultless, and spotless, and to establish you
without a blemish,
25
before his majesty, with joy, [namely,] the
only God, our Deliverer, by means of Jesus the
Messiah our Lord, be praise, and dominion, and
honor, and majesty, both now and in all ages.
Amen.
The
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Apocalypse
1:1 The Revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which
God gave to him, to show to his servants the
things that must shortly occur: and he signified
[it] by sending, through his angel, to his servant
John;
2
who bore witness to the word of God, and to
the testimony of Jesus the Messiah, as to all that
he saw.
3 17
Blessed is he that readeth, and they who hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep the things
that are written in it; for the time is near.
4 18
John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace to you and quietude, from him who is, and
who was, and who is to come, from the seven
Spirits which are before his throne;
5
and from Jesus the Messiah, the Witness, the
Faithful, the First-born of the dead, and the
Prince of the kings of the earth; who hath loved
us, and released us from our sins by his blood;
6
and hath made us a kingdom sacerdotal to
God and his Father: to whom be glory and
power, for ever and ever. Amen.
7
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and all eyes
shall see him, and also they who speared him;
and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn on
account of him. Yes: Amen.
8
I am Alpha, also Omega, saith the LORD God;
who is, and was, and is to come, the
omnipotent.
9
I John, your brother, and partaker with you in
the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the
Messiah, was in the island called Patmos,
because of the word of God, and because of the
testimony of Jesus the Messiah.
10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and I
heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
which said:
11
That which thou seest, write in a book, and
send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to
Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and
to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
12
And I turned myself to look at the voice that
talked with me; and when I had turned, I saw
seven candlesticks of gold;
13
and, in the midst of the candlesticks, one like
the Son of man, clothed to the feet, and girded
about his paps with a girdle of gold.
32
Revelation 1:1 – Or, “The Revelation, which was
made by God to John the Evangelist, in the island of
Patmos, to which he was banished by Nero the
Emperor.”
14
And his head and his hair were white, like
white wool, like snow; and his eyes, like a flame
of fire:
15
and his feet were like fine brass, flaming in a
furnace: and his voice, like the sound of many
waters.
16
And he had in his right hand seven stars; and
from his mouth issued a sharp two­edged sword;
and his visage was like the sun shining in its
strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one
dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, and
said, Fear not: I am the First and the Last;
and who liveth and was dead; and behold, I
am alive for ever and ever. Amen. And I have
the keys of death and of the unseen world.
19
Therefore, write what thou hast seen, and the
things that are; and the things that are to be
hereafter:
20
the mystery of these seven stars which thou
sawest in my right hand, and the seven
candlesticks of gold. Those seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches; and the seven
candlesticks are the seven churches.
2:1 To the angel of the church which is at
Ephesus write: These things saith he who
holdeth all things, and the seven stars, in his
right hand; he that walketh in the midst of the
seven candlesticks of gold;
2
I know thy works, and thy toil, and thy
patience, and [that] thou canst not endure the
wicked; and thou hast tried them who say they
are legates, and are not; and thou hast found
them liars.
3
And thou hast had patience, and hast borne
the burden, on account of my name, and hast
not fainted.
4
Yet I have [a charge] against thee, on account
of thy former love, which thou hast left.
5
Therefore remember whence thou hast fallen;
and repent, and do the former works: or if not, I
will come to thee quickly, and I will remove thy
candlestick from its place, except thou repent.
6
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds
of the Nicolaitans, which I also [hate].
7
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches. To him who is victorious,
will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the
paradise of my God.
8
And to the angel of the church which is at
Smyrna, write: These things saith the First and
the Last, he who was dead, and liveth.
9
I know thy works, and the affliction, and the
poverty, (yet thou art rich;) and the railing which
is from them who say they are Jews, and they
are not, but are of the congregation of Satan.
10
Be not terrified at any of the things thou art to
suffer. For lo, the Accuser will throw some of you
into custody, that ye may be tried; and there will
be trouble to you ten days. Be faithful unto
death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
11
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches. He that is victorious, shall
not be harmed by the second death.
12
And to the angel of the church at Pergamos,
write: Thus saith he who hath the sharp two-
edged sword;
13
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
[even] where the throne of Satan is: and thou
holdest fast my name, and hast not denied the
faith of me, in those days when my faithful
witness, who was slain among you, was made a
spectacle where Satan dwelleth.
14
Yet I have a small [charge] against thee.
Thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling-
block before the children of Israel, that they
might eat the sacrifices of idols, and might
commit whoredom.
15
So also thou hast them who hold the doctrine
of the Nicolaitans. In like manner, repent thou.
16
Or if not, I will come to thee quickly, and I will
war upon them with the sword of my mouth.
17
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches. To him that is victorious,
will I give to eat of the hidden manna; and I will
give him a white counter, and upon the counter
a new name written, which no one knoweth but
he that receiveth it.
18
And to the angel of the church at Thyatira,
write: These things saith the Son of God, who
hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like
fine brass:
19
I know thy works, and love, and faith, and
service, and also thy patience; and that these
thy latter works are more than the former.
20
But I have [a charge] against thee, because
thou sufferest thy woman Jezabel, who saith she
is a prophetess, and teacheth, and seduceth my
servants to whoredom, and to eating of the
sacrifices of idols.
21
And I gave her a season for repentance, and
she is not disposed to repent of her whoredom.
22
Behold, I will cast her upon a bed, and them
who commit adultery with her into great
affliction, unless they repent of their deeds.
23
And her children will I slay with death: and all
the churches shall know, that I am he who
searcheth reins and hearts; and I will render to
each of you according to your works.
24
And I say to you, to the rest that are in
Thyatira, to all them who have not received this
doctrine, the men who have not known the
profound things of Satan, as they say; I lay no
other burden upon you:
25
but, what ye have, hold fast until I come.
26
And to him that is victorious, and to him that
observeth my works unto the end, to him will I
give authority, over the nations;
27
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and
like vessels of pottery, shall they be broken: as I
also have received of my Father.
28
And I will give him the morning star.
29
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches.
3:1 And to the angel of the church which is at
Sardis, write: These things saith he who hath the
seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I
know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou
livest, and thou art dead.
2
Awake, and preserve the things that remain,
which are ready to die; for I have not found thy
works complete before my God.
3
Remember therefore how thou hast received
and heard; and observe [those precepts], and
repent. If then thou wilt not wake up, I will come
upon thee as a thief; and thou shalt not know at
what hour I will come upon thee.
4
Yet thou hast a few names in Sardis, who
have not defiled their garments; and they shall
walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
5
He that is victorious, shall be so clothed in
white robes; and I will not blot out their name
from the book of life; and I will confess their
name before my Father, and before his angels.
6
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches.
7
And to the angel of the church which is at
Philadelphia, write: These things saith he that is
holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of
David, who openeth and no man shutteth, and
shutteth and no man openeth;
8
I know thy works. And lo, I have set before
thee an open door, which no man can shut:
because thou hast a little strength; and thou hast
kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
9
Behold, I will give them of the congregation of
Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but
lie, behold I will make them to come and do
obeisance before thy feet; and to know that I
have loved thee.
10
Because thou hast kept the word of my
patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of

temptation, that is to come on all the inhabited
world, to try them who dwell on the earth.
11
I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, so
that no one take thy crown.
12
Him that is victorious, will I make a pillar in
the temple of my God; and he shall not again go
out: and I will write upon him the name of my
God, and of the new Jerusalem which
descendeth from heaven from my God, and my
own new name.
13
He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit
saith to the churches.
14
And to the angel of the church which is at
Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen,
the witness, the faithful, the true, the Chief of the
creation of God:
15
I know thy works, that thou art neither hot, nor
cold; I would that thou wert cold or hot.
16
So, because thou art lukewarm, neither hot
nor cold, I am about to vomit thee from my
mouth.
17
Because thou sayest, I am rich and affluent,
and have no want of any thing; and thou
knowest not, that thou art impotent, and
miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked;
18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white
raiment, to be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness may not be seen; and put eye-salve
on thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be
emulous therefore, and repent.
20
Behold, I have been standing at the door, and
I will knock: if any man hear my voice, and open
the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with
him, and he with me.
21
And to him that is victorious, to him will I give
to sit with me on my throne, even as I was
victorious, and sat down with my Father on his
throne.
22
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what
the Spirit saith to the churches.
4:1 After these things, I looked and lo, a door
[was] open in heaven. And the first voice which I
heard, was as of a trumpet talking with me. It
said, Come up hither; and I will show thee the
things that must occur hereafter.
2 5
Instantly, I was in the Spirit: and lo, a throne
was placed in heaven; and there was [one]
seated on the throne.
3
And he who sat, was like the appearance of a
jasper-stone, and of a sardine [sard], and of a
rainbow of the clouds, round about the throne, in
form as the appearance of emeralds.
4
Around the throne were twenty and four seats;
and upon those seats sat twenty and four
Elders, who were clothed in white robes, and on
whose heads were coronets of gold.
5
And from the throne proceeded lightnings, and
the sound of thunders; and seven lamps of fire
were burning before his throne, which are the
seven Spirits of God.
6
And before the throne, as it were a sea of
glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne,
and around it, and before the throne, were four
Animals, full of eyes in their front and in their
rear.
7
And the first Animal resembled a lion; and the
second Animal resembled a calf; and the third
Animal had a face like a man; and the fourth
Animal resembled an eagle when flying.
8
And these four Animals had, each of them, six
wings around it: and within they were full of
eyes: and they have no cessation, day or night,
from saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, the LORD God, the
Omnipotent, who was, and is, and is to come.
9
And when these Animals give glory and honor
and praise to him that sitteth on the throne, to
him who liveth for ever and ever,
10
the twenty and four Elders fall down before
him who sitteth on the throne, and they worship
him who liveth for ever and ever; and they cast
their coronets before the throne, saying,
11
Worthy art thou, O Lord our God, the Holy, to
receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast
created all things, and by thee they exist; and
because of thy pleasure they had being and
were created.
5:1 And I saw, at the right hand of him who sat
on the throne, a book, which was written within
and on the back side, and which was sealed
with seven seals.
2
And I saw a strong angel, who proclaimed with
a loud voice, Who is competent to open the
book, and to loose the seals thereof?
3
And no one either in heaven above, or on the
earth, or beneath the earth, was able to open
the book, or to look thereon.
4
And I wept much, because no one was found,
who was competent to open the book, or to look
on it.
And one of the Elders said to me, Weep not;
behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root
of David, hath been victorious: He will open the
book, and its seven seals.
6
And I looked, and in the midst of the Elders
stood a lamb, as if slain; and it had seven horns,
and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of
God that are sent into all the earth.
7 7
And he came, and took the book from the right
hand of him who sat on the throne.
8 8
And when he took the book, the four Animals
and the twenty and four Elders fell down before
the Lamb, each of them having a harp, and cups
of gold full of odors, which are the supplications
of the saints.
9
And they sung a new anthem, saying:
Competent art thou, to take the book, and to
open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain,
and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out
of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and
nation;
10
and thou hast made them kings and priests to
our God; and they reign on the earth.
11
And I looked, and I heard, as it were the voice
of many angels, around the throne, and the
Animals and the Elders; and the number of them
was a myriad of myriads, and thousand of
thousands,
12
who said, with a loud voice; Competent is the
Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor,
and glory, and blessing;
13
and [to be over] every created thing, that is in
heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, or in the
sea; and all that are in them. And I heard him
who sat on the throne say: Unto the Lamb be
given, blessing, and honor, and glory, and
power, for ever and ever.
14
And the four Animals said: Amen. And the
Elders fell down, and adored.
6:1 And, when the Lamb had opened one of the
seven seals, I looked, and I heard one of the
four Animals say, as with a voice of thunder,
Come, and see.
2 16
And I looked, and there was a white horse:
and he who sat on it, had a bow; and a coronet
was given to him, and he went forth conquering,
that he might conquer.
3 17
And when he had opened the second seal, I
heard the second Animal say, Come.
4
And there went forth another, a red horse; and
to him who sat thereon, it was given, to take
tranquillity from the earth; and that they should
kill one another; and there was given to him a
great sword.
5
And when he had opened the third seal, I
heard the third Animal say, Come, and see. And
I looked, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat
thereon, had a balance in his hand.
6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four
Animals, saying: A choenix of wheat for a
denarius, and three choenices of barley for a
denarius; and hurt not the oil and the wine.
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I
heard the fourth Animal say, Come, and see.
And I looked, and lo, a pale horse; and the
name of him who sat thereon was Death; and
Hades followed after him. And there was given
him authority over the fourth part of the earth, to
slay with the sword, and by famine, and by
death, and by the ravenous beast of the earth.
9
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw
under the altar the souls of them who were slain
on account of the word of God, and on account
of the testimony to the Lamb which was with
them.
10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How
long, O LORD, thou holy and true, dost thou not
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell
on the earth?
11
And to each one of them was given a white
robe; and it was told them, that they must be
quiet yet a little while, until the consummation of
their fellow-servants and brethren, who were to
be killed as they had been.
12
And I looked, when he had opened the sixth
seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the
sun became black, like sackcloth of hair; and the
whole moon became like blood.
13
And the stars of heaven fell on the earth, as a
fig-tree casteth its unripe figs, when it is shaken
by a strong wind.
14
And the heavens separated, as a book is
rolled up: and all mountains and islands were
removed out of their places.
15
And the kings of the earth, and the nobles,
and the captains of thousands, and the rich
men, and the men of valor, and every servant
and free man, hid themselves in caves, and in
the clefts of the mountains;
and they said to the mountains and to the
clefts, Fall over us, and hide us from the face of
him who sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of their wrath is come; and
who is able to stand?
7:1 And after these things I saw four angels,
who stood on the four corners of the earth; and
they held the four winds of the earth, so that the
wind blew not on the earth, nor on the sea, nor
on the trees.
2
And I saw another angel, and he came up
from the rising of the sun; and he had the seal of
the living God; and he called out, with a loud
voice, to the four angels to whom it was given to
hurt the earth and the sea, saying:
3
Hurt ye not the earth, nor the sea, nor the
trees, until we shall have sealed the servants of
our God upon their foreheads.
4 2
And I heard the number of them that were
sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand,
sealed from every tribe of Israelites.
5
Of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were
sealed: of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand:
of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand:
6
of the tribe of Ashur, twelve thousand: of the
tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand: of the tribe of
Manasseh, twelve thousand:
7
of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand: of the
tribe of Levi, twelve thousand: of the tribe of
Issachar, twelve thousand:
8
of the tribe of Zebulon, twelve thousand: of the
tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand: of the tribe of
Benjamin, twelve thousand.
9
And after these things, I looked, and lo, a
great multitude, which no one could number,
from all kindreds, and nations, and tribes, and
tongues; who stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and
palms in their hands;
10
and they cried, with a loud voice, saying:
Salvation to our God, to him who sitteth on the
throne, and to the Lamb.
11
And all the angels stood around the throne
and the Elders and the four Animals; and they
fell upon their faces before his throne, and
worshipped God,
12
saying: Amen. Blessing, and glory, and
wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and
power, and might, [be] to our God, for ever and
ever: Amen.
13
And one of the Elders turned, and said to me:
These who are clothed in white robes, who are
they, and whence came they?
14
And I said to him: My lord, thou knowest. And
he said to me: These are they who came from
great affliction; and they have washed their
robes, and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb.
15
Therefore are they before the throne of God;
and they serve him day and night, in his temple;
and he who sitteth on the throne, will protect
them:
16
they will not hunger, nor thirst any more; nor
will the sun fall on them, nor any heat.
17
Because the Lamb, which is in the midst of
the throne, will feed them; and will lead them to
fountains of living water; and God will wipe every
tear from their eyes.
8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal,
there was silence in heaven, for about half an
hour.
And I saw the seven angels, who stood before
God; and to them were given, seven trumpets.
3
And another angel came and stood by the
altar; and he held a golden censer: and much
incense was given him, so that he might offer,
with the prayers of all the saints, upon the
golden altar before the throne.
4
And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of
the saints went up before God from the hand of
the angel.
5
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with
fire from the altar, and cast it upon the earth:
and there were thunders, and lightnings, and
voices, and an earthquake.
6
And the seven angels, who had the seven
trumpets, prepared themselves to sound.
7
And the first sounded; and there was hail, and
fire, which were mingled with water: and these
were thrown upon the earth; and a third part of
the earth was burned up, and a third part of the
trees were burned, and all green grass was
burned.
8
And the second angel sounded, and, as it
were a great mountain burning with fire, was
cast into the sea; and also a third part of the sea
became blood.
9
And a third part of all the creatures in the sea,
that had life, died; and a third part of the ships
were destroyed.
10
And the third angel sounded, and there fell
from heaven a star, burning like a lamp; and it
fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of water.
11
And the name of the star was called
Wormwood; and a third part of the waters
became wormwood; and many persons died
from the waters, because they were bitter.
12
And the fourth angel sounded, and a third
part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of
the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that
the third part of them were dark, and they
became dark; and the day did not give light for
the third part of it, and the night in like manner.
13
And I saw and heard an eagle, which flew in
33
the midst, and it had a tail of blood , while it
said, with a loud voice: Woe, woe, to them who
dwell on the earth, because of the remaining
33
Revelation 8:13 - The Greek translator
compounded the words meaning, middle, tail, and
blood; and he rendered it in mid heaven;
accordingly.

sounds of the trumpets of the three angels, who
are to sound.
9:1 And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a
star, which fell from heaven upon the earth. And
there was given to him the key of the pit of the
abyss.
2
And he opened the pit of the abyss; and
smoke issued from the pit, like the smoke of a
furnace that is in blast; and the sun and the air
were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
3
And out of the smoke, came locusts upon the
earth: and power was given them, like that which
scorpions have on the earth.
4
And it was commanded them, that they should
not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any herb, nor
any tree; but [only] the persons, who had not the
seal of God upon their foreheads.
5 21
And it was given them, that they should not kill
them, but should torment them five months: and
their torment was like the torment of a scorpion,
when it striketh a person.
6
And in those days, men will desire death, and
will not find it; and they will long to die, and
death will fly from them.
7
And the appearance of the locusts [was this];
they were like the appearance of horses
prepared for battle; and on their heads, was, as
it were a coronet, resembling gold; and their
faces were like the faces of men.
8 3
And they had hair, like the hair of women: and
their teeth were like those of lions.
9
And they had breastplates, like breastplates of
iron: and the sound of their wings, was like the
sound of the chariots of many horses rushing
into battle.
10
And they had tails like those of scorpions,
and stings; and with their tails they had the
power of hurting men five months.
11
And they had a king over them, the angel of
the abyss; and his name, in Hebrew, is
Abaddon; and in Greek, his name is Apollyon.
12
One woe is past; lo, there come yet two woes
after them.
13
And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a
voice from the horns of the golden altar which
was before God,
14
that said to the sixth angel having a trumpet:
Loose the four angels that are bound at the
great river Euphrates.
15
And the four angels were loosed; who are
prepared, for an hour, and a day, and a month,
and a year, to slay the third part of men.
16
And the number of the warrior horsemen was
two myriads of myriads: and I heard their
number.
17
And while I looked on the horses in the vision,
and on them who sat on them [I saw] that the
breastplates were of fire, and of jacinth, and of
sulphur. And the heads of the horses were like
the heads of lions; and from their mouths issued
fire, and smoke, and sulphur.
18
And by these three plagues, a third part of the
men were slain; [namely,] by the fire, and by the
smoke, and by the sulphur, which issued from
their mouths.
19
For the power of the horses was in; their
mouth, and in their tails; for their tails were like
serpents, having heads to strike with.
20
And the residue of men who were not slain by
these plagues, repented not of the works of their
hands, so as not to worship demons, and idols
of gold, and of silver, and brass, and stone, and
wood, which cannot see, nor hear.
And they repented not of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, nor of their whoredom, nor of
their thefts.
10:1 And I saw another mighty angel, that
descended from heaven, clothed with a cloud;
and a cloud-bow was over his head, and his
face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of
fire.
2
And he had in his hand an open little book:
and he placed his right foot upon the sea, and
his left upon the land:
and he cried with a loud voice, as a lion
roareth: and when he had cried, the seven
thunders uttered their voices.
4
And when the seven thunders had spoken, I
was about to write. And I heard a voice from
heaven, saying: Seal up the things which the
seven thunders have uttered, and write them
not.
5
And the angel whom I saw standing upon the
sea and the land, raised his right hand to
heaven,
6
and swore, by him who liveth for ever and
ever, who created heaven and the things in it,
and the earth and the things in it, and the sea
and the things in it, that the time should be no
longer;
7
but, in the days of the voice of the seventh
angel, when he shall sound, and the mystery of
God shall be consummated; as he announced to
his servants the prophets.
8
And the voice which I heard from heaven,
spoke to me again, and said: Go, take the little
open book in the hand of the angel that standeth
on the sea and on the land.
9
And I went to the angel, telling him to give me
the little book. And he said to me, Take, and eat
it: and it will make thy bowels bitter, but in thy
mouth it will be sweet as honey.
10
And I took the little book from the hand of the
angel, and ate it: and it was in my mouth sweet
like honey: and when I had eaten it, my bowels
were bitter.
11
And be said to me, Thou must again
prophesy upon many nations, and peoples, and
princes, and kings.
11:1 And a reed was given to me, like a rod; and
the angel stood, saying, Arise, and measure the
temple of God, and the altar, and them that
worship therein.
2 16
But the court which is without the temple,
leave out, and measure it not; because it is
given to the Gentiles; and they will tread down
the holy city forty and two months.
3 17
And I will give my two witnesses; and they will
prophesy a thousand and two hundred and sixty
days, clothed in sackcloth.
4
These are the two olive-trees, and the two
candlesticks which stand before the Lord of the
earth.
5
And if any person will harm them, fire cometh
out of their mouth, and consumeth their
adversary; and if any one will harm them, thus
must he be slain.
6
They have power to shut up heaven, so that
the rain shall not fall in those days: and they
have power over the waters, to turn them into
blood; and to smite the earth with all plagues, as
often as they please.
7
And when they shall have completed their
testimony, the beast of prey that came up from
the abyss, will make war upon them, and will
overcome them.
8
And their dead bodies [will be] in the open
street of that great city, which is spiritually called
Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was
crucified.
9 3
And [they] of the nations and tribes and
peoples and tongues, will look upon their dead
bodies, three days and a half; and will not suffer
their dead bodies to be laid in the grave.
10
And they who dwell on the earth will rejoice
over them, and will be merry, and will send
presents to one another; because those two
prophets tormented them who dwell on the
earth.
11
And after these three days and a half, the
spirit of life from God entered into them, and
they stood upon their feet: and great fear fell on
those who saw them.
12
And they heard a great voice from heaven,
which said to them: Come up hither. And they
ascended to heaven in a cloud; and their
enemies saw them.
13
And in the same hour there was a great
earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell:
and the persons killed in the earthquake, were
seven thousand names: and they who remained
were afraid, and gave glory to God.
14
The second woe is passed: behold, the third
woe cometh quickly.
15
And the seventh angel sounded; and there
were voices and thunders, which said: The
kingdom of the world hath become [the kingdom]
of our Lord and of his Messiah; and he will reign
for ever and ever.
And the twenty and four Elders, who are
before the throne of God, [and] who sit upon
their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped
God,
saying: We praise thee, O LORD God,
Omnipotent, who art, and wast; because thou
hast assumed thy great power, and hast
reigned.
18
And the nations were angry; and thy anger is
come, and the time of the dead, that they should
be judged: and that thou shouldst give a reward
to thy servants, the prophets, and the saints,
and to them that fear thy name, the small and
the great; and that thou shouldst destroy them
who destroyed the earth.
19
And the temple of God in heaven was
opened; and the ark of his covenant was seen in
his temple: and there were lightnings, and
thunders, and voices, and an earthquake, and
great hail.
12:1 And a great wonder was seen in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and on her head a coronet of
twelve stars.
2
And, being with child, she cried, and travailed,
and had the pangs of bringing forth.
And there appeared another wonder in
heaven; and lo, a great fiery dragon, which had
seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head
seven diadems.
4
And his tail drew along the third part of the
stars of heaven, and cast them on the earth.
And the dragon was standing before the woman,
who was about to bring forth, so that, when she
should bring forth, he might devour her child.
5
And she brought forth a male child, who was
to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her
child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where
she had a place which was prepared for her by
God; so that they might nourish her there a
thousand and two hundred and sixty days.
7 3
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon, and the
dragon and his angels fought,
8 4
and prevailed not; nor was their place found
any more in heaven.
9
And the great dragon was cast out, the old
serpent, who is called the Deceiver, and Satan,
who seduceth all the inhabited world: he was
cast upon the earth, and his angels were cast
out with him.
10
And I heard a great voice in heaven, which
said: Now is there deliverance, and the power
and the kingdom of our God, and the dominion
of his Messiah: because the Accuser of our
brethren is cast out, who accused them day and
night before our God.
11
And they overcame him, because of the
blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of
their testimony: and they loved not their life,
even to death.
12
Therefore, be joyful, O heaven, and ye that
dwell there. Woe to the earth, and to the sea; for
the Deceiver hath come down to you, being in
great wrath since he knoweth that his time is
short.
13
And when the dragon saw that he was cast
out upon the earth, he persecuted the woman
who brought forth the male child.
14
And to the woman were given the two wings
of the great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness, to her place; where she is nourished
a time and times and half a time, from the face
of the serpent.
15
And the serpent ejected from his mouth
waters like a river, after the woman, that he
might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
16
And the earth helped the woman: and the
earth opened its mouth, and drank up the flood
which the serpent ejected from his mouth.
17
And the dragon was enraged against the
woman; and he went to make war upon the
residue of her seed, who keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony
of Jesus.
13:1 And he stood on the sand of the sea. And I
saw a beast of prey come up from the sea,
having ten horns, and seven heads; and upon
his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads
names of blasphemy.
2
And the beast of prey which I saw, was like a
leopard; and his feet like [those] of a wolf, and
his mouth like the mouth of lions: and the dragon
gave to him his own power and his throne, and
great authority.
And one of his heads was wounded as it were
to death; and his deadly wound was healed. And
all the earth wondered after the beast of prey.
And they worshipped the dragon, because he
had given authority to this beast of prey, and
[they said], who can make war upon him?
5
And there was given to him a mouth speaking
great things, and blasphemies: and authority
was given him to operate forty and two months.
6
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy
towards God, to blaspheme his name and his
tabernacle, and them who dwell in heaven.
7
And authority was given him over every tribe
and people and tongue and nation: and it was
given him to wage war with the saints, and to
overcome them.
8
And all that dwell on the earth, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world, will
worship him.
9
If any one hath ears, let him hear.
10
If [any one] carrieth into captivity, he shall
himself go into captivity; and if any one slayeth
with the sword, he must be slain with the sword:
here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
11
And I saw another beast of prey, which came
out of the earth; and he had two horns like those
of a lamb, and he spoke like the dragon.
12
And before him he exercised all the authority
of the first beast of prey, whose deadly wound
was healed.
13
And he wrought great signs, even so as to
make fire come down from heaven upon the
earth, before men.
14
And he seduced them that dwell on the earth,
to erect an image to the beast of prey who had
the wound from a sword and recovered.
15
And it was given him to put life into the image
of the beast of prey; and to cause that all they
who would not worship the image of the beast of
prey, should be slain:
16
and to cause that all, great and small, rich
and poor, bond and free, should receive a mark
on their right hands, or upon their foreheads;
17
so that no one might be able to buy or to sell,
except those who had the mark of the name of
the beast of prey, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom: let him that hath intelligence,
compute the number of the beast of prey; for it is
the number of a man: and its number is six
hundred and sixty and six.
14:1 And I looked, and behold, a Lamb stood on
mount Zion; and with him the number of a

hundred and forty and four thousand, having his
name and the name of his Father written upon
their foreheads.
2
And I heard a sound from heaven, as the
sound of many waters, and as the sound of
great thunder; and the sound which I heard, was
like that of harpers striking on their harps.
3 16
And they sang a new song before the throne,
and before the four Animals and the Elders: and
no one was able to learn that song, except the
hundred and forty and four thousand who were
redeemed from the earth.
4
These are they who have not defiled
themselves with women, for they are virgins.
These are they who followed the Lamb,
whithersoever he went. These have been
redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first
fruits to God and the Lamb.
5
And in their mouth was found, no falsehood;
for they are without faults.
6
And I saw another angel flying in heaven: and
with blood, he had the everlasting gospel, to
proclaim to dwellers on the earth, and to every
nation and tribe and tongue and people;
7
saying with a loud voice, Worship God, and
give glory to him; because the hour of his
judgment is come; and adore ye Him, who made
heaven and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of water.
8 2
And another, a second angel followed him,
saying: Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which
made all nations drink of the wine of the rage of
her whoredom.
9
And another, a third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice: If any man shall
worship the beast of prey and its image, and
shall receive its mark upon his forehead or on
his hand,
10
he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of
GOD, which is poured undiluted into the cup of
his indignation, and shall be tormented with fire
and sulphur, before the holy angels, and before
the throne.
11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up
for ever and ever; and there is no rest, by day or
by night, to those that worship the beast of prey
and its image.
12
Here is the patience of the saints, who keep
the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus.
13
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying:
Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord,
henceforth: yes, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their toils; for their deeds do
accompany them.
14
And I looked, and lo, a white cloud; and upon
the cloud sat one who was like the Son of man;
and on his head was a crown of gold, and in his
hand a sharp sickle.
15
And another angel came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice, to him that sat on the
cloud.
And he thrust his sickle over the earth; and
the earth was reaped.
17
And another angel came out of the temple
that is in heaven, having also a sharp sickle.
18
And another angel came out from the altar,
having authority over fire. And he cried with a
loud voice, to him who had the sharp sickle,
saying: Thrust in thy sickle which is sharp, and
gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth,
because the grapes of the earth are ripe.
19
And the angel thrust in his sickle on the earth,
and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast
[it] into the wine-press of the wrath of the great
God.
20
And the wine-press was trodden, up to the
horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred
furlongs.
15:1 And I saw another prodigy in heaven, great
and wonderful; seven angels, having seven
plagues, the last in order, because with them the
wrath of God is consummated.
And I saw as it were, a sea of glass mixed with
fire: and they, who had been victorious over the
beast of prey, and over its image, and over the
number of its name, were standing on the sea of
glass; and they had the harps of God.
3
And they sing the song of Moses the servant
of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great
and marvellous are thy deeds, LORD God
Almighty; just and true are thy ways, O King of
worlds.
4
Who shall not fear thee, O LORD, and glorify
thy name? Because thou only art holy and just:
Because all nations shall come and worship
before thee, since thy righteousnesses have
been revealed.
5
And after this I beheld, and the temple of the
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven, was
opened.
6
And the seven angels who had the seven
plagues, went forth from the temple, clothed in
clean splendid linen, and girded about their
breast with girdles of gold.
7
And one of the four Animals gave to those
seven angels seven cups of gold, full of the
wrath of God who liveth for ever and ever.
8
And the temple was filled with smoke, from the
glory of God and from his power; and no one

was able to enter the temple, until the seven
plagues of the seven angels were accomplished.
16:1 And I heard a voice, which said to the
seven angels: Go forth, and pour those seven
cups of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2
And the first went, and poured his cup upon
the earth; and there was a malignant and painful
ulcer upon those men who had the mark of the
beast of prey, and who worshipped its image.
3
And the second angel poured his cup upon the
sea; and it became blood, like that of a dead
person; and every living soul of things in the
sea, died.
4
And the third angel poured his cup upon the
rivers and the fountains of water; and they
became blood.
5
And I heard the angel of the waters say:
Righteous art thou, who art and who wast, and
art holy; because thou hast done this judgment.
6
For they have shed the blood of saints and
prophets; and thou hast given them blood to
drink, for they deserve it.
7
And I heard [one from] the altar say: Yes,
LORD God Almighty: true and righteous is thy
judgment.
8
And the fourth poured his cup upon the sun:
and it was permitted him, to scorch men with
fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat; and
men blasphemed the name of God, who hath
authority over these plagues; and they repented
not, to give glory to him.
10
And the fifth poured his cup on the throne of
the beast of prey; and his kingdom became
darkness; and they gnawed their tongues, from
pain;
11
and they blasphemed the God of heaven, on
account of their pains and their ulcers, and did
not repent of their deeds.
12
And the sixth poured his cup upon the great
river Euphrates; and its waters dried up, so that
a way might be prepared for the kings from the
rising of the sun.
13
And I saw [issuing] from the mouth of the
dragon, and from the mouth of the beast of prey,
and from the mouth of the false prophet, three
unclean spirits like frogs:
14
(for they are the spirits of demons, who work
prodigies;) and they go forth to all the kings of all
the habitable world, to gather them to the battle
of the great day of God Almighty.
15
(And lo, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that
watcheth, and keepeth his garments; lest he
walk naked, and they see his shame.)
16
And they collected them together in a place
called, in Hebrew, Armageddon.
17
And the seventh poured his cup on the air;
and there issued a loud voice from the temple,
from the throne, which said: It is done!
18
And there were lightnings, and thunders, and
voices; and there was a great earthquake, the
like of which there was never, since men were
on the earth, such an earthquake, and so great.
19
And the great city became three parts. And
the city of the nations fell; and Babylon the great
was remembered before God, to give her the
cup of the wine of the heat of his wrath.
20
And every island fled away; and the
mountains were not found.
21
And a great hail, as it were of a talent weight,
fell from heaven upon men: and the men
blasphemed God, on account of the plague of
hail; for the plague of it was very great.
17:1 Then came one of the seven angels who
have the seven cups, and talked with me,
saying: Come, I will show thee the judgment of
the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters;
2
with whom the kings of the earth have
practised whoredom, and the inhabitants of the
earth have been inebriated with the wine of her
whoredom.
3
And he led me in spirit into the wilderness: and
I saw a woman sitting on a red beast of prey,
which was full of names of blasphemy, and had
seven heads and ten horns.
4
And the woman was clothed in purple and
scarlet, and gilded with gold, and precious
stones, and pearls; and she had a cup of gold in
her hand, which was full of the pollutions and
impurity of her whoredoms of the earth.
5
And upon her forehead was the name written:
Mystery: Babylon the great; the Mother of
Harlots, and of the contaminations of the Earth.
6
And I saw that the woman was intoxicated with
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I
wondered with great amazement.
7
And the Angel said to me, Why dost thou
wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the
woman, and of the beast of prey that beareth
her, which hath the seven heads and the ten
horns.
8
The beast of prey which thou sawest, was,
and is not; and he will ascend from the abyss
and go into perdition: and the dwellers on the
earth, whose names are not written in the book
of life from the foundation of the world, will
wonder when they see the beast of prey, which
was, and is not, and approacheth.
9 6
Here is intelligence, for him who hath wisdom.
Those seven heads are the seven mountains,
on which the woman sitteth.
10
And there are seven kings: of whom five have
fallen, one exists, and the other hath not yet
come; and when he cometh he must continue
for a short time.
11
And the beast of prey, which was and is not,
is the eighth, and is from the seven, and is for
perdition.
12
And the ten horns which thou sawest, are ten
kings. These persons have not yet received
royalty; but they receive authority, as if kings,
with the beasts of prey, for one hour.
13
They have one mind; and they will give their
power and authority unto the beast of prey.
14
They will make war upon the Lamb; and the
Lamb will vanquish them; because he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings, and these with him [are]
called and chosen and faithful.
15
And he said to me: The waters which thou
sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16
And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the
beast of prey, will hate the harlot; and they will
make her desolate and naked, and will eat her
flesh, and burn her with fire.
17
For God hath put into their hearts, to do his
pleasure, and to execute one purpose, and to
give their kingdom to the beast of prey, until
these words of God shall be fulfilled.
18
And the woman whom thou sawest, is the
great city, which hath dominion over the kings of
the earth.
18:1 After these things, I saw another angel
come down from heaven; and he had great
authority and the earth was illumined by his
glory.
2 15
And he cried with a strong voice, saying:
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great: and hath
become a cavern of demons, and the home of
every unclean spirit, and the home of every
unclean and hateful bird and the home of every
unclean and hateful beast of prey.
3
For all the nations have drunken of the wine of
her wrath; and the kings of the earth have
practised whoredom with her; and the
merchants of the earth have been enriched by
the abundance of her luxuries.
4 18
And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying: Come ye out of her, my people; that ye
may not participate in her sins, and may not
partake of her plagues.
5
For her sins have reached up to heaven; and
God hath remembered her iniquities.
Recompense ye to her, as she also hath
recompensed; and render to her double,
according to her deeds; in the cup which she
hath mixed, mix ye to her two fold.
7
As much as she pleased herself with
lasciviousness, so much of anguish and sorrow
give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart, I
sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see
no sorrow;
8
therefore, in one day, shall these her plagues
come, death, and mourning, and famine; and
she shall be burned with fire: for strong is the
LORD God who judgeth her.
9
And the kings of the earth who committed
whoredom and were lascivious with her, shall
weep, and mourn, and bewail her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning,
10
standing afar off, from fear of her torment,
[and] saying, Alas, alas! that great city Babylon,
that powerful city; for in one hour is thy judgment
come!
11
And the merchants of the earth will mourn
over her, because no one purchaseth their
cargo;
12
no more, the cargo of gold, and silver, and
precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and
purple, and silk, and scarlet, and every aromatic
wood, and all vessels of ivory, and all vessels of
very precious wood, and of brass, and of iron,
and of marble,
13
and cinnamon, and amomum, and aromatics,
and unguents, and frankincense, and wine, and
oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts of
burden, and sheep, and horses, and chariots,
and the bodies and souls of men.
14
And the fruits which thy soul desired, have
departed from thee; and all things delicious and
splendid have perished from thee; and the
traders in them shall obtain them no more.
And they who were enriched from her, will
stand afar off, for fear of her torment; and will
weep and mourn,
16
saying: Alas, alas! that great city, which was
clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and
gilded with gold, and precious stones, and
pearls; because, in one hour, such riches are
laid waste.
17
And every pilot, and every navigator to the
place, and the sailors, and all who do business
by sea) stood afar off,
and cried, when they saw the smoke of her
burning, saying: What [other] is like this great
city!
19
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried,
weeping, and mourning, and saying: Alas, alas
that great city, in which all that have ships in the
sea became rich, by her preciousness; for in one
hour she hath become desolate.
20
Rejoice over her, O heaven, and ye Angels,
and Legates, and Prophets; because God
judgeth your cause with her.
21
And an angel took up a stone like a great
millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: So
shall Babylon, the great city, be thrown down
with violence, and shall no more be found:
22
and the voice of harpers and musicians and
pipers and trumpeters, shall no more be heard in
thee; and no artificer of any trade, shall be found
any more in thee.
23
And the light of a candle, shall not be seen in
thee; and the voice of a bridegroom and bride,
shall no more be heard in thee: for thy
merchants were the great men of the earth,
because all nations were seduced by thy
sorceries.
24
And in her was found the blood of prophets
and saints, and of all those that have been slain
on the earth.
19:1 And after these things, I heard a loud voice
of a great multitude in heaven, saying:
Hallelujah: Deliverance, and strength, and glory,
and honor, unto our God:
2
for, true and righteous are his judgments; for
he hath judged that great harlot, who corrupted
the earth with her whoredom; and hath avenged
the blood of his servants at her hand.
3
And again they said: Hallelujah: and her
smoke ascendeth up for ever and ever.
4
And the twenty-four Elders fell down, and the
four Animals, and worshipped God who sitteth
on the throne, saying: Amen: Hallelujah!
5
And a voice came forth from the throne,
saying: Praise our God, all ye his servants; and
such as fear him, small and great.
6 20
And I heard, as it were the voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and
as the voice of heavy thunders, saying:
Hallelujah; for our LORD God, Omnipotent,
reigneth.
7
Let us rejoice and exult, and give glory to him:
for the marriage supper of the Lamb hath come,
and his bride hath made herself ready.
8
And it was granted her to be clothed in fine
linen, bright and clean: for fine linen is the
righteousnesses of the saints.
9
And he said to me, Write; Blessed are they
who are called to the supper of the marriage
feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These my
[sayings] are the true words of God.
10
And I fell at his feet, to worship him. And he
said to me, See, [thou do it] not; I am thy fellow-
servant, and of those thy brethren who have the
testimony of Jesus. Worship ye God: for the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11
And I saw heaven opened: and lo, a white
horse; and he that sat on it, is called Faithful and
True: and in righteousness he judgeth, and
maketh war.
12
His eyes [were] like a flame of fire, and on his
head [were] many diadems; and he had names
inscribed; and the name which was written on
him, no one knew, except himself.
13
And he was clothed with a vesture sprinkled
with blood; and his name is called, The Word of
God.
14
And the soldiery of heaven followed him, on
white horses, clad in garments of fine linen, pure
[and] white.
15
And from his mouth issued a sharp two-
edged sword, that with it he could smite the
nations; and he will rule the nations with a rod of
iron; and he will tread the wine-press of the
wrath of God Almighty.
16
And he hath upon his vesture and upon his
thigh the words written: King of kings, and Lord
of lords.
17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and
he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven: Come ye,
assemble unto this great supper of God;
18
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the
flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of
valiant men, and the flesh of horses and of those
who sit on them, and the flesh of all the free-
born and of slaves, and of the small and the
great.
19
And I saw the beast of prey, and the kings of
the earth, and their warriors, that they
assembled to wage battle with him who sat on
the [white] horse, and with his warriors.
And the beast of prey was captured, and the
false prophet that was with him, who did those
prodigies before him, whereby he seduced them
who had received the mark of the beast of prey
and who worshipped his image. And they were
both cast alive into the lake of fire, which
burneth with sulphur.
21
And the rest were slain by the sword of him
that sat on the horse, by that [sword] which
issueth from his mouth: and all the fowls were
satiated with their flesh.
20:1 And I saw an angel that descended from
heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great
chain in his hand.
2
And he seized the dragon, the old serpent,
who is the Deceiver and Satan, who seduced

the whole habitable world: and he bound him a
thousand years.
3
And he cast him into the abyss, and closed
and sealed upon him; so that he might deceive
the nations no more, until these thousand years
shall be completed: but after that, he will be
loosed for a little time.
4
And I saw thrones, and [persons] sat on them,
and judgment was given to them, and to the
souls that were beheaded for the testimony of
Jesus and for the word of God: and these are
they who had not worshipped the beast of prey,
nor its image, neither had they received the
mark upon their forehead or on their hand, and
they lived and reigned with their Messiah those
thousand years.
5
This is the first resurrection.
6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in this
first resurrection: over them the second death
hath no dominion; but they shall be, [nay] are,
priests of God and of his Messiah; and they will
reign with him the thousand years.
7 6
And when these thousand years shall be
completed, Satan will be released from his
prison;
8
and will go forth to seduce the nations that are
in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog;
and to assemble them for battle, whose number
is as the sand of the sea.
9
And they went up on the breadth of the earth,
and encompassed the camp of the saints, and
the beloved city. And fire came down from God
out of heaven, and consumed them.
10
And the Accuser who seduced them, was
cast into the lake of fire and sulphur, where also
were the beast of prey and the false prophet:
and they shall be tormented, day and night, for
ever and ever.
11
And I saw a great white throne, and Him who
sitteth thereon; from whose presence the earth
and heaven fled away, and this their place was
not found.
12
And I saw the dead, great and small standing
before the throne; and the books were opened;
and another book was opened, which is [the
book] of life. And the dead were judged from the
things written in the books, according to their
deeds.
13
And the sea gave up the dead in it; and death
and the grave gave up the dead in them. And
they were judged, each one according to his
deeds.
14
And death and the grave were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death, [namely,]
this lake of fire.
15
And if any one was not found enrolled in the
book of life, he was cast into this lake of fire.
21:1 And I saw new heavens, and a new earth:
for the former heaven and the former earth had
passed away: and the sea was no more.
2
And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem,
descending from God out of heaven, prepared
like a bride adorned for her husband.
3
And I heard a great voice from heaven, which
said: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men;
and he dwelleth with them: they will be his
people; and God will be with them, a God to
them.
4
And every tear will be wiped from their eyes;
and there will no more be death, nor mourning,
nor wailing; nor shall pain be any more; because
the former things are passed away.
5
And He who sat on the throne, said: Behold, I
make all things new. And he said: Write;
because these are the faithful and true words of
God.
And he said to me: I am Alpha and Omega,
the Beginning and the Completion: to him who
thirsteth, will I give of the fountain of living water,
gratis.
7
He that overcometh, shall inherit these things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8
But to the timid, and the unbelieving, and to
the sinful, and polluted, and to manslayers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters,
and to all false persons, their portion shall be in
the lake that burneth with fire and sulphur, which
is the second death.
9
And there came one of those seven angels,
who have the seven cups filled with the seven
last plagues, and talked with me, saying: Come,
I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.
10
And he bore me away in the spirit, to a
mountain great and high, and he showed me the
holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven
from God;
11
in which was the glory of God, as a brilliant
light, and resembling a very precious gem; like a
jasper stone, resembling crystal.
12
And it had a wall great and lofty, which had
twelve gates, and names inscribed on them,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the
children of Israel.
13
On the east, three gates; on the north, three
gates; [on the south, three gates; and on the
west, three gates].
14
And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and upon them the twelve names of
the twelve legates of the Lamb.
15
And he that talked with me, had a measure, a
golden reed; so that he could measure the city,
and its gates, and its wall.
16
And the city stood up four square; and its
length was the same as its breadth. And he
measured the city with the reed, to twelve
furlongs of twelve thousand; and the length and
the breadth and the height of it were [all] equal.
17
And he measured its wall, a hundred and
forty and four measures of the cubits of a man,
that is, of the angel.
18
And the structure of its wall [was of] jasper;
and the city was of pure gold, like pure glass.
19
And the foundations of the wall of the city
were adorned with every precious stone. The
first foundation, a jasper; the second, a
sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an
emerald;
20
the fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, a sardius; the
seventh, a chrysolite; the eighth, a beryl; the
ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the
eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21
And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls;
each [pearl] one gate, and each [gate] one pearl:
and the broad street of the city was pure gold,
like brilliant glass.
22
And I saw no temple in it; for the LORD
Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.
23
And the city hath no need of the sun or of the
moon, to enlighten it; for the glory of God
enlighteneth it, and the Lamb is the lamps of it.
24
And the nations that were saved, shall walk
by means of its light, and the kings of the earth
will bring their glory and the wealth of the
nations into it.
25
And its gates shall not be shut by day; for
there is no night there.
26
And they will bring the glory and honor of the
nations into it.
27
And there shall not enter it, any thing
polluted, or that practiseth impurity and
falsehood; but they who are registered in the
Lamb's book of life.
22:1 And he showed me a river of living water,
transparent [as] crystal, which proceeded from
the throne of God and the Lamb.
2
And in the middle of its broad avenue, and
near the river, on this side and on that, [was] the
tree of life; which bore twelve [sorts of] fruits
yielding one of its fruits each month: and the
leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the
nations.
3
And there will be no blight any more: and the
throne of God and the Lamb will be in it; and his
servants will minister to him.
4
And they will see his face, and his name [will
be] on their foreheads.
5
And there will be no more night; and they have
no need of the light of a candle, or of the light of
the sun; because the LORD God giveth them
light: and they will reign for ever and ever.
6
And he said to me: These words [are] faithful
and true. And the LORD God of the spirit of the
prophets, hath sent me, his angel, to show unto
his servants the things that must soon occur.
7
And, lo, I come quickly: Blessed is he that
keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.
8
And more-over I am John, the hearer and the
seer of these things. And when I heard and saw,
I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel
who showed me these things.
9
And he said to me: See, [thou do it] not: I am
thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the
prophets, and of them that observe the words of
this book. Worship God.
10
And he said to me: Seal not the words of the
prophecy of this book; for the time is near.
11
He that doth evil, let him do evil still; and he
that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is
righteous, let him practise righteousness still;
and he that is sanctified, let him be sanctified
still.
12
Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with
me, to recompense every one according to his
work.
13
I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the
Last, the Commencement and the Completion.
14
Blessed are they who do his commandments,
that they may have a right to the tree of life, and
may enter through the gates into the city.
15
Without [will be] dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and manslayers, and idolaters,
and every one that loveth and doeth falsehood.
16
I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you
these things before the churches. I am the root
and offspring of David: like the splendid star of
the morning.
17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come thou.
And let him that heareth, say, Come thou. And
let him who thirsteth, come; and he that is
inclined, let him take the living water gratis.
18
I testify to every one that heareth the words of
the prophecy of this book, that if any one shall
add to them, God will add to him the plagues
that are written in this book.
19
And if any one shall take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy, God will take
away his portion from the tree of life, and from
the holy city, which are described in this book.
20
He who testifieth these things, saith: Yes, I
come quickly. Amen. Come, LORD Jesus!
21
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,
[be] with all the saints. Amen.
Author
MURDOCK, JAMES (1776-1856). An American scholar, born at Westbrook, Conn., and
educated at Yale, class of 1797. He taught school in New Haven and at Oneida Academy, now
Hamilton College, studied for the ministry, was licensed in 1801, preached for 13 years in the
Congregational church of Princeton, Mass., and was professor of ancient languages in the
University of Vermont from 1815 until 1819, when he went to Andover Theological Seminary.
There he taught sacred rhetoric and Church history until l829, and then he removed to New
Haven, where he devoted his last years to private study. He published versions of Munscher's
Elements of Dogmatic History (1830), of Mosheim's Institutes of Ecclesiastical History (1832),
and of Mosheim's Affairs of the Christians before the Time of Constantine the Great (1852); a
Literal Translation of the Whole New Testament from the Ancient Syriac Version (1851);
Sketches of Modern Philosophy (1842).